Hunter-gatherer past taught our brains to love exercise
by Alexis Blue
The link between exercise and the brain may be a product of our evolutionary history and past as hunter-gatherers, researchers say.
Anthropologist David Raichlen and psychologist Gene Alexander, who together run a research program on exercise and the brain, propose an “adaptive capacity model” for understanding, from an evolutionary neuroscience perspective, how physical activity impacts brain structure and function.
