Professor Bruce Latimer talks about how evolution weakened our knees

How to build a better knee
Men’s Journal: Bruce Latimer, professor of anthropology, anatomy and cognitive science and director of the Center for Human Origins, talked about how evolution left our knees weak. “We took a chimpanzee-like knee and turned it into a biped’s,” he said. “But evolution can’t create perfection—it’s merely a tinkerer that builds on previous variations.”