Not wanting to get into any debate about the merits of evolution (a previous thread on evolution was closed as it got out of hand: Evolution )…. But: One of the underlying tenets of the trend to barefoot or minimalist running has been that we allegedly evolved to run barefoot and that shoes has been a recent invention and the use of the shoe is allegedly the claimed reason for a lot of the ill in society and running today (see my comments here on Liebermann’s presentation at ISB ). Since hearing this presentation, I done a lot of reading on the concept of evolutionary medicine whose hypothesis is that we evolved in an environment that we are not now living in and that mismatch is the causes of a lot of the health problems

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Did we evolve to run barefoot or not?