My wife wondered if we are reaching the limit of human ability in athletics; I think we’re only reaching the limit of people who actually take part in those sports.

  • gustofwind@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    You’re correct and she is wrong, very wrong

    “I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”

    evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould