<br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/12/28 spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net">spike66@att.net</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">>…</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Stefano Vaj</span></p>
<div class="im"><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] how did high heels happen?<u></u><u></u></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">2011/12/28 <<a href="mailto:natasha@natasha.cc" target="_blank">natasha@natasha.cc</a>><u></u><u></u></p>
<p><span style="color:#1f497d">>></span>Looking at high heels is like looking at sculpture<span style="color:#1f497d">…</span>  Wearing high heels feels sexy. <span style="color:#1f497d">…</span>Not all high heels are uncomfortable<span style="color:#1f497d">…<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><br><span style="color:#1f497d">>…</span>After all, we have been standing on the balls of our feet for most of our evolutionary history... :-)<span style="color:#1f497d">  </span>--<span style="color:#1f497d"> </span>Stefano Vaj<span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">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? </span></p>
</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Humans are plantigrades (walking with the feet more or less flat on the ground). Other plantigrades examples, courtesy of wikipedia:</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raccoon" title="Raccoon" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px">raccoons</a><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opossum" title="Opossum" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px">opossums</a><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear" title="Bear" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px">bears</a><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit" title="Rabbit" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px">rabbits</a><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangaroo" title="Kangaroo" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px">kangaroos</a><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mice" title="Mice" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px">mice</a><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_panda" title="Red panda" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px">pandas</a><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat" title="Rat" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px">rats</a><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyraxes" title="Hyraxes" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px">hyraxes</a><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk" title="Skunk" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px">skunks</a><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> and </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedgehog" title="Hedgehog" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background-image:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:19px">hedgehogs</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Alfio</div></div>