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Let the games begin! The mad dash to the phone \u2026 the sudden spring out of bed \u2026 the frantic juggling of car keys, grocery bags and a cell phone! Olympic athletes may have remarkable speed and strength, but it\u2019s easy praise the extraordinary. Here\u2019s to the extreme averageness of the rest of us. From beer bellies to aching backs, we\u2019re all winners in the Darwinian Olympics just by virtue of being here.\nIdentify the one physical trait that you share with all Olympians \u2013 your head - and why it\u2019s a remarkable human evolutionary achievement. Plus, the role of genes in putting on the pounds \u2026 and what event Spiderman would enter to win the gold.\nGuests:\n\n\nDaniel Lieberman - Professor of human evolutionary biology, Harvard University, author of The Evolution of the Human Head\n\n\n\nCallum Ross - Professor of organismal biology and anatomy, University of Chicago\n\n\nKelly Brownell - Psychologist, director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University\n\n\nRobert Peaslee - Assistant professor, College of Media and Communications, Texas Tech University and author of Web-Spinning Heroics: Critical Essays on the History and Meaning of Spider-Man\n\n\n\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices