Daniel Lieberman, 10 Years After “Born to Run”

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Daniel Lieberman, 10 Years After “Born to Run”
By Richard A. Lovett; Alice Reich (for Runner's World)

The Harvard evolutionary biologist whose work helped inspire the barefoot running movement talks about his own marathoning and what runners should take from science.

Harvard professor Daniel Lieberman is an evolutionary biologist whose 2004 study on human evolution, “Endurance running and the evolution of Homo,” caught international attention by arguing that among the animal kingdom, humans are supremely adapted distance runners. The study made the cover of the prestigious journal Nature under the title “Born to Run” and subsequently led to Lieberman’s being a major figure in Christopher McDougall’s bestselling book of the same title. Lieberman, a barefoot running aficionado, has also been strongly associated with the barefoot running boom that followed that book’s publication. Writer Richard A. Lovett talked to him in August at an international running science symposium in Calgary, Alberta. To continue reading, please visit http://www.runnersworld.com/barefoot-running/daniel-lieberman-10-years-after-born-to-run.