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SUMMARY:What extreme expeditions reveal about human evolutionary physiolog
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DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Danny Longman (Loughborough University)\n\nIn 2009\,
  Dr Danny Longman joined a team attempting to row 3\,000 miles across the 
 Atlantic Ocean. Their boat sank. He lost his glasses. They were rescued by
  a Ukrainian cargo tanker. It was\, by any measure\, a complete disaster 
 – and yet it launched a research programme he is still running today.\n\
 n\n\nIn this talk\, Danny describes what a series of extreme expeditions 
 – including ocean rows across the Atlantic\, Arctic and Black Sea\, a si
 x-month unsupported cycle from Mexico to Argentina and open-water swimming
  records in the English Lake District – have revealed about human evolut
 ionary biology.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nTwo scientific threads run through the adv
 entures. The first concerns what happens to the body under extreme physica
 l stress and why\, when energy runs short\, the body makes ruthless choice
 s about what to protect and what to sacrifice. The second concerns the env
 ironment itself: whether wild landscapes restore something in human physio
 logy that urban environments steadily erode.\n\n\n\n \nBio:\n\nDr Danny L
 ongman is a keen adventurer\, outdoors enthusiast and Helly Hansen sponsor
 ed athlete. He holds eight official Guinness World Records for Arctic expl
 oration and a fastest known time for ultra-endurance wild swimming in the 
 English Lake District.\nHe read Natural Sciences as an undergraduate\, bef
 ore completing his Masters\, PhD and postdoctoral fellowship in evolutiona
 ry anthropology\, all at the University of Cambridge. \nHe now leads the 
 Human Evolutionary EcoPhysiology Research Group at Loughborough University
 \, investigating how the body adapts under extreme physical stress and how
  natural and industrialised environments affect human health and performan
 ce. \n\n \n \nCoffee and tea will be served at 16h\nOrganised by : Mat
 thew Chalmers\n \n \n\nhttps://indico.cern.ch/event/1743445/\n\nZoom: ht
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LOCATION:500/1-001 - Main Auditorium (CERN)
URL:https://indico.cern.ch/event/1743445/
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