I, and many people I know, suffer some kind of back pain, often crippling. Is it because humans haven’t been bipedal for long enough for evolution to have perfected the art of walking upright? And if we are in pain now, what kind of pain must the early bipeds have endured?
• I would suggest that the problem is the opposite: we are devolving and, as a result, suffering from back pain.
For thousands of years our ancestors walked everywhere, hunting for food. If these hominids were constantly in pain, I assume they would have gone back to the trees to…
