Human locomotion needs ecology
4 min readOct 20, 2022
Our bodies don’t exist outside of nature
In her book Movement Matters, biomechanist Katy Bowman makes a case for the importance of movement in our lives — not fitness confined to an hour on an exercise machine, but real-life movement: walking, foraging, strolling, meandering, running a bit, playing. For hours. The kinds of movement our species evolved to engage in over many eons.
