The (Mismatched) Evolution of Man and Its Influence on Injury
Category: SCIENCE
The fundamental ethos of natural selection dictates that species optimally adapt to a given environment over time. If the environment during a given time is unlike the environment that the species adapted to, the species is considered mismatched, in that its traits are no longer optimal for that environment.
By Rami Hashish, PhD, DPT, ContributorPrincipal, National Biomechanics Institute, 2014-10-06