Skip to main content

Science

Physically fit ?

In our newsletter for 2017-06-29: Fitness, Star Trek, Ethereum, drug policy, Liberty Con, Africa, trees, and fusion energy.

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.

The Lazarus Effect

The FTN Newsletter 2017-06-20: Healing, WiFi, supersonic flight, smartphones, Amazon's acquisitions, Tesla's, ebooks, websites, flying cars and AI ethics.
Subscribe to Science