Running with Sherman: How a Rescue Donkey Inspired a Rag-tag Gang of Runners to Enter the Craziest Race in America

by Christopher McDougall

Our brains, our bodies, our conscious and subconscious minds—they all evolved in response to the creatures around us. It was eat or be eaten, which meant we couldn’t forget about them for a second.

I wonder what the evolutionary result will be now that we’ve distanced ourselves from the natural world