It turns out humans aren't so great at doing that whole "walking" thing. According to researchers at Indiana's Purdue University, people are "surprisingly bad" at walking despite thousands of years of evolution and practice.
Researchers asked college students to record their falls over a 16-week period, with the majority of falls occurring while students were walking (58 percent) and most of those falls happening because of a slip (48 percent) or a trip (25 percent), The Telegraph reports. Because the study showed that not just old people are prone to falling, researchers deduced that the act of walking is "inherently difficult" for humans.
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