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Extreme sport performances of top athletes from the perspective of evolutionary anthropology
Novák, Hynek ; Brůžek, Jaroslav (advisor) ; Hora, Martin (referee)
This paper is focused on searching through contemporary observations and opinions, related to evolution of anatomicaly modern humans. Questions like whether the human evolution already ceased, or could be considered for still ongoing process, have been tried to answer here. Is it relevant to link steadily increasing performance of olympic athletes with human evolution and is it possible to make some conclusions from such phenomena? It is another key question I tried to solve in this work. Firstly before attempting to make some conclusions, it was necessary to involve chapters concerning evolution of humankind, evolutionary history of certain types of physical activity and current trends in athletic performance as well. Keywords human evolution, athletic performance, civilization diseases, olympic athletes, future of human, physical activity
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