Sorry, Nike, We Evolved to Run Barefoot: Author

100 miles a day?...By a running humane being?...This guy is full of BS..... Reply

We didn't evolve to run barefoot, people used to run barefoot all the time. But he's right about ditching the footwear. Reply

following the false concept that since we have a big brain everything that comes out of that is natural , even H bombs and chemical pollution are perfectly in harmony with our world according tio this stupid philosophy. not everything that the man creates is a good idea. not always bad ideas are immediately evident as such. so i don' see why contesting the utility of shoes is perceived by some as a provocation. at least, shoes may not be a good idea for many but remain very useful for other purposes. i think that we have been brainwashed into thinking that shoes *are always mandatory* but a growing number is acquiring awareness that it is not like that. but of course shoes are merchandise and must be promoted. and ads lie a lot... Reply

The author on this one got it backwards. We devolved to run barefoot. As many prehistoric skeletons that the scientific community has found, I've never heard of one wearing Nikes. Reply

People insistence on creating straw man arguments against the minimalist shoe position is really quite silly. It intentionally misrepresents and distorts what is being argued. No minimalist shoe advocate has ever claimed that evolution has made mans feet impervious to all types of natural dangers such as jagged rock, nor to withstand the (purely mandmade and very recent history) introduction of super hard surfaces like concrete, anymoreso than nature has gave that ability to any other member of the animal kingdon. No animal is impervious to such natural dangers, let alone man made dangers that have only been around for a hundred years which is nowhere near the amount of time for any kind of selection process to allow for sufficient adaptation. Natural selection has no more provided this "impervious" ability to feet anymoreso than it has endowed us with non exixtent super abilities in other parts of our body. Has natural selection made people completely impervious to the harsh elements around us, such that we could not die from extreme cold or hot? Of course not. Clothing is still necessary just like shoes are sometimes still necessary. Duh. Has selection rendered us with superhuman abilities to not be sick or ever incur any type of common injury? Of course not. So by what dumb line of logic would anyone assume that selection and evolution somehow implies that our feet would somehow be endowed with fantastical abilities to never become injuried if our adaptations to temperature likewise have not blessed us with the ability to endure freezing cold without clothing? It wouldn't. The evolutionary process simply allows for a gradual and subtle adaptation process which has allowed us to better cope with the environment around us. Reply