The Blue Elephant
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When I run for president in the USA in a couple decades I hope they never dig back my internet history and find things like this (along with my other folder titled "don't click me").
I was wondering what yall think the reason that sports is so Afro dominated? It appears it is mainly in sports were running speed is a major factor (which is a lot of them). I heard about something called Allen's rule which states that animals that live closer to the equator have longer limbs on average. There are no animals like giraffes in the arctic because it would loose too much heat. If they did live there they would have shorter limbs. This also applies to humans so it makes it so humans in warmer climate have longer limbs on average. Basketball fans often know all about wingspan and know that usually the people with the freakishly long wingspans (like Bismack, Kawhi Leonard) are almost always black while people with short wingspans (like Gordon Hayward, J.J. Redick, Blake Griffin) belong to white or at least half white players. Remember this is average, not all.
Having long limbs seems to apply to center of gravity as well. Swimmers want a low center of gravity to keep as much of the water submersed in water, having to lift as little weight above water as possible and runners want a higher center of gravity to have lighter feat. This appears to be why most swimmers are white
https://www.pratt.duke.edu/news/speediest-athletes-its-all-center-gravity
Doesn't mean long limbed people can't swim and short limbed people can't run, it just may not be at an Olympic gold medal level. To be an elite athlete you need a combination of rare genetics and not having a couple of "ideal" things can be overcome.
Of course I want to stress that humans have very little genetic variation and a white human from Norway, a subsaharan black human, and a Korean dude even though come from very different parts of the earth have less genetic difference than two different chimps that live in the same valley.
I was wondering what yall think the reason that sports is so Afro dominated? It appears it is mainly in sports were running speed is a major factor (which is a lot of them). I heard about something called Allen's rule which states that animals that live closer to the equator have longer limbs on average. There are no animals like giraffes in the arctic because it would loose too much heat. If they did live there they would have shorter limbs. This also applies to humans so it makes it so humans in warmer climate have longer limbs on average. Basketball fans often know all about wingspan and know that usually the people with the freakishly long wingspans (like Bismack, Kawhi Leonard) are almost always black while people with short wingspans (like Gordon Hayward, J.J. Redick, Blake Griffin) belong to white or at least half white players. Remember this is average, not all.
Having long limbs seems to apply to center of gravity as well. Swimmers want a low center of gravity to keep as much of the water submersed in water, having to lift as little weight above water as possible and runners want a higher center of gravity to have lighter feat. This appears to be why most swimmers are white
https://www.pratt.duke.edu/news/speediest-athletes-its-all-center-gravity
Doesn't mean long limbed people can't swim and short limbed people can't run, it just may not be at an Olympic gold medal level. To be an elite athlete you need a combination of rare genetics and not having a couple of "ideal" things can be overcome.
Of course I want to stress that humans have very little genetic variation and a white human from Norway, a subsaharan black human, and a Korean dude even though come from very different parts of the earth have less genetic difference than two different chimps that live in the same valley.
