Beth Linker

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Something You Should Know · Have We Been Wrong About Posture? & How Memory Champions Think · 20 Jul 2026 podcast

But at the same time, they really targeted the whole general population in the U.S.

And they tried to develop these tools to...

determined how to grade posture, literally grading posture with an A, B, C, or D. And they worked in universities and they worked in schools.

And this was the start of the big research efforts into posture.

But I think by today's standards, we would see their measurements of human posture as pretty simplistic.

I would say it is in large part a learned thing.

I don't know that it's innate.

You know, if you look at all of Western history from Plato to Aristotle onward, philosophers

since ancient history have been discussing or pointing out at least the uniqueness of the human body of upright posture.

There would be maybe etiquette manuals.

So how to conduct oneself, how to hold oneself would be found in etiquette manuals for polite society.

It was more of a marker of status.

than anything particularly health related.

So as I indicated earlier, there were a lot of etiquette manuals.

But interestingly, if you look at the etiquette manuals from even the early Republic of this country of the United States, most etiquette manuals would advise

well-bred people to have a slight lean in their stance when they stood, when they sat.

The only people, according to certain etiquette manuals, who sit bolt straight up were lower class.

And as you can tell, like fashion and cultural ideas, I think we can all get a sense that those change over time, right?

And it wasn't until the late 19th, early 20th century and after Darwin's discovery and the scientific community's

embrace of Darwin's theory that evolution happened not because the human brain developed first or that human speech developed first.

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