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  2. Endurance running hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    The endurance running hypothesis is a series of conjectures which presume humans evolved anatomical and physiological adaptations to run long distances [1] [2] [3] and, more strongly, that "running is the only known behavior that would account for the different body plans in Homo as opposed to apes or australopithecines". [4]

  3. Runaway (dependent) - Wikipedia

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    Running away from home is considered a crime in some jurisdictions, but it is usually a status offense punished with probation, or not punished at all. [16] Giving aid or assistance to a runaway instead of turning them in to the police is a more serious crime called "harboring a runaway", and is typically a misdemeanor.

  4. Persistence hunting - Wikipedia

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    Humans are some of the best long distance runners in the animal kingdom; [6] some hunter gatherer tribes practice this form of hunting into the modern era. [7] [8] [9] Homo sapiens have the proportionally longest legs of all known human species, [3] [10] [11] but all members of genus Homo have cursorial (limbs adapted for running) adaptions not seen in more arboreal hominids such as ...

  5. Feral child - Wikipedia

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    Feral children lack the basic social skills that are normally learned in the process of enculturation.For example, they may be unable to learn to use a toilet, have trouble learning to walk upright after walking on all fours their whole lives, or display a complete lack of interest in the human activity around them.

  6. Bear attack - Wikipedia

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    A bear's first reaction upon detecting a human is to run away. [3] Fergus lists a few possible causes for this instinctive reaction, each a speculation or theory based more on intuition rather than physical evidence.

  7. Phan Thi Kim Phuc - Wikipedia

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    A group of children, Phúc among them, run away in fear. After a few seconds, she encounters the reporters dressed in military fatigues, [23] including Christopher Wain who gave her water (top-right frame) and poured some over her burns. [23] As she turns sideways, the severity of the burns on her arm and back can be seen (bottom-left frame).

  8. Fugitive slaves in the United States - Wikipedia

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    A new name was invented for the supposed mental illness of an enslaved person that made them want to run away: drapetomania.) Enslavers would put up flyers, place advertisements in newspapers, offer rewards, and send out posses to find them. Under the Fugitive Slave Act, enslavers could send federal marshals into free states to kidnap them.

  9. CERN ritual hoax - Wikipedia

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    Frame from the video depicting people in cloaks gathered around the statue of Shiva. The CERN ritual hoax is a found footage video that depicts a faux occult ritual occurring in the grounds of CERN, the intergovernmental organization that operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world.