Tuesday, December 07, 2004

Baby got back:

I came across this gem in The New York Times while reading an article about how homo sapiens' bodies have evolved the way they have due to our propensity toward endurance running:

And there was the gluteus maximus, the muscle of the buttocks. Earlier human ancestors, like chimpanzees today, had pelvises that could support only a modest gluteus maximus, nothing like the strong buttocks of Homo.