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Another interesting coincidence (or perhaps a decades-long dad-joke troll perpetrated by German-speaking scientists) is that 1 hertz is roughly equal to the frequency at which a human heart (“Herz” in german, with a nearly indistinguishable pronunciation to “Hertz”) beats.



That seems rather low rate. Regular rate in rest is 60 to 100. Which only lower bound is roughly 1Hz, while upper rate is quite far what I would understand German to understand as roughly.


80+ heart rate at rest seems very high to me. Is this based on averages from present-day people? Including lots of sedentary people with hyper tension, overweight and obese people, etc. So "normal" in the statistical sense but maybe not "normal" in the physiological sense?

Athletes have much lower resting rate. So if we take feral humans from 50Ky ago their rest heart rate would have been much closer to the 60 bpm.




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