Photo: Weaklings' Sharper Hearing Helps Them Escape Danger?

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Physical weaklings perceive the sources of approaching (above, a man perks up in an undated photo) sounds to be closer than fit people do—an evolutionary trait that may help scrawnier people escape danger, scientists said in May 2009.

Photograph by Vincent Ricardel/Getty Images

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