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Oct. 30, 2009
Running Research
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| Runners from around the world are converging on New York City, preparing for this weekend's running of the New York Marathon. Last week, the action was in the Washington area for the Marine Corps Marathon. In this segment, we'll get the latest on research into running -- what adaptations make some people better runners than others? And how did running help shape the evolution of humans? |
Produced by Flora Lichtman, Correspondent and Managing Editor, Video
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Daniel E. Lieberman
Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts -
John Ratey
Author, "Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain" (Little, Brown & Company, 2008)
Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School
Cambridge, Massachusetts
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