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If humans had hooves instead of feet would they still be able to walk?


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If humans had hooves, it would be so because they evolved to have hooves. In the course of this evolution process, they would have to be able to walk (or run) in order to find food, escape predators and so on, so the answer would have to be yes.

If you're asking "if people miraculously had their feet replaced by hooves, would they be able to walk" the answer would have to be "depends on the exact properties of these hooves". This is not a biological question IMO, it's more about biomechanics, and there's not enough data to answer it.

Posted 2007-06-10T15:47:58Z
 
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Yeah, I guess I should have modified it a bit to say, If humans were born with hooves instead of feet...

Posted 2007-06-10T16:24:23Z
 
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Why not, here are some examples for cases in which people walk on small surfaces like hooves:

People can practice and walk on stilts.

Patients who had some sort of foot amputation undergo rehabilitation and are able to walk with aid.

Chinese women whose feet were bind (in order to deform the foot and make it shorter - as a part of an old tradition) were able to walk.

The human race is very good in adjusting itself to changing circumstance, so I guess that hooves would make walking hard and slow but not impossible.

Posted 2007-06-12T18:20:10Z
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can eye walk on hooves with horns for stalks of eye

can eye see with blinders made of nails formed

can eye slip into the cracks of grass inside the sidewalk

can eye run with hoofs on says the eye ???

Posted 2008-03-23T23:51:58Z

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