As any good clothes horse
knows, the right outfit speaks
volumes about the person
wearing it. Now,
anthropologists are tapping into
that knowledge base, looking
for the physical changes caused
by wearing shoes to figure out
when footwear first became
fashionable.
Turns out, clothes really do
make the man (and the
woman), at least when it comes
to feet. That's because wearing
shoes changes the way humans
walk and how their bodies
distribute weight. If you wear
shoes regularly, as most
modern humans do, those
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