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**hotsaucemidl** · 06-28-2012, 05:03 PM

It's true. Since our ancestors didn't keep statistics on how common death from heat exhaustion was, it must not have been a big deal.

Who is getting heat exhaustion walking around their house?

I run in this heat. Regularly. 3 miles at a time.

Our (ALL of us!) paleolithic ancestors were endurance hunters who chased prey for hours in the mid-day heat (yes, mid-day is when they hunted). They did this to survive for millennia. Our bodies are the product of hundreds of thousands of years of tropical adaptation. The few thousand years we have been out of Africa has not changed us sufficiently.

06-28-2012, 05:03 PM	#21
hotsaucemidl Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 508 Senior Member	It's true. Since our ancestors didn't keep statistics on how common death from heat exhaustion was, it must not have been a big deal. Who is getting heat exhaustion walking around their house? I run in this heat. Regularly. 3 miles at a time. Our (ALL of us!) paleolithic ancestors were endurance hunters who chased prey for hours in the mid-day heat (yes, mid-day is when they hunted). They did this to survive for millennia. Our bodies are the product of hundreds of thousands of years of tropical adaptation. The few thousand years we have been out of Africa has not changed us sufficiently.
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