[ExI] how did high heels happen?

[Alfio Puglisi]

2011/12/28 spike <spike66 at att.net>

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> *>…* *On Behalf Of *Stefano Vaj
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> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] how did high heels happen?****
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> 2011/12/28 <natasha at natasha.cc>****
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> >>Looking at high heels is like looking at sculpture…  Wearing high heels
> feels sexy. …Not all high heels are uncomfortable…****
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> >…After all, we have been standing on the balls of our feet for most of
> our evolutionary history... :-)  -- Stefano Vaj****
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> Ja, almost all mammals do that.  Humans and the great apes are (I think)
> the only beasts walking around bearing load on the heels.  Anyone know a
> counter example?
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Humans are plantigrades (walking with the feet more or less flat on the
ground). Other plantigrades examples, courtesy of wikipedia:

> raccoons <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raccoon>, opossums<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opossum>
, bears <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear>,
rabbits<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit>
, kangaroos <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangaroo>,
mice<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mice>
, pandas <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_panda>,
rats<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat>
, hyraxes <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyraxes>,
skunks<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk>
 and hedgehogs <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedgehog>

Alfio
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