ABOUT 80,000 to 250,000 anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries of the knee occur annually, with many of these injuries affecting individuals between the ages of 15-25 years. I The majority of ACL injuries are noncontact in nature,23 with landing and plantand-cut maneuvers being the most common activities associated with it 4 Females participating in sports that involve jump landing and plant...

Although humans are a major mechanism for short and long distance seed dispersal, there is limited research testing clothing as a vector. The effect of different types of material (sports vs hiking socks), or different items of clothing (boots, socks, laces vs legs) or the same item (socks) worn in different places on seed composition were assessed in Kosciuszko National Park, Australia. Data w...

Sport fandom has received considerable attention from social scientists, yet few have considered it from an evolutionary perspective. To redress this gap, we develop the hypothesis that team sports exhibit characteristics that activate mechanisms which evolved to facilitate the development of coalitions in the context of small-scale warfare. Based on this by-product hypothesis, we predicted a c...

the origins of sports traditionally dates back to its practice encouraged by religion, custom or militancy, and, therefore, was considered a wholly masculine practice. due to the inextricable link between sports and body management, nowadays, leisure and health have transcended their meaning beyond a certain gender and, consequently, sports has become a wholly ordinary practice for women. to at...

The primary aim of this paper is to deconstruct one of the dominant discoursessurrounding Mäori men—a discourse that was constructed to limit, homogenize,and reproduce an acceptable and imagined Mäori masculinity, and one that hasalso gained hegemonic consent from many täne. I use a genealogical approach tooutline the historical underpinnings of the image of the Mäori man as nat...