Based on the average height of humans, we should have longer strides JohnnyGreig/Getty Images
Humans have lost their swing. Chimpanzees and other great apes swing their hips when they walk, but modern humans don’t. This means our strides are shorter than those of chimpanzees, even though our legs are proportionally longer.
鈥淲e鈥檝e always had this idea that evolution has been acting on fossil humans to make strides longer and longer,鈥 says at the New York Institute of Technology. But, in fact, 鈥渉umans right now could make our strides longer, but we don鈥檛.鈥
