The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic PerformancePenguin, 2013 - 338 страница The New York Times bestseller - with a new afterword added to the paperback - from the author of Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World. In high school, I wondered whether the Jamaican Americans who made our track team so successful might carry some special speed gene from their tiny island. In college, I ran against Kenyans, and wondered whether endurance genes might have traveled with them from East Africa. At the same time, I began to notice that a training group on my team could consist of five men who run next to one another, stride for stride, day after day, and nonetheless turn out five entirely different runners. How could this be? We all knew a star athlete in high school. The one who made it look so easy. He was the starting quarterback and shortstop; she was the all-state point guard and high-jumper. Naturals. Or were they? The debate is as old as physical competition. Are stars like Usain Bolt, Michael Phelps, and Serena Williams genetic freaks put on Earth to dominate their respective sports? Or are they simply normal people who overcame their biological limits through sheer force of will and obsessive training? In this controversial and engaging exploration of athletic success, Sports Illustrated senior writer David Epstein tackles the great nature vs. nurture debate and traces how far science has come in solving this great riddle. He investigates the so-called 10,000-hour rule to uncover whether rigorous and consistent practice from a young age is the only route to athletic excellence. Along the way, Epstein dispels many of our perceptions about why top athletes excel. He shows why some skills that we assume are innate, like the bullet-fast reactions of a baseball or cricket batter, are not, and why other characteristics that we assume are entirely voluntary, like an athlete's will to train, might in fact have important genetic components. This subject necessarily involves digging deep into sensitive topics like race and gender. Epstein explores controversial questions such as: - Are black athletes genetically predetermined to dominate both sprinting and distance running, and are their abilities influenced by Africa's geography? |
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A Tale of Two High Jumpers | 18 |
Major League Vision and the Greatest Child | 38 |
Why Men Have Nipples | 56 |
5 | 67 |
The Talent of Trainability | 75 |
6 | 95 |
7 | 114 |
The Vitruvian NBA Player | 128 |
Race and Genetic Diversity | 142 |
Malaria and Muscle Fibers | 175 |
12 | 183 |
Death Injury and Pain on the Field | 242 |
EPILOGUE | 282 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 291 |
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