‘Heel-strike’ may have allowed early humans to walk farther—at the cost of high-impact forces
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- The average person takes thousands of steps each day, instinctively walking heel-to-toe. Although they hardly register them, those consistent heel-first strides are more distinctive to humans than previously thought and allowed early hominins to walk farther and more efficiently, but at the cost…