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The Theory That Men Evolved to Hunt and Women Evolved to Gather Is Wrong
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"Fastest" does not mean the best endurance. You would be looking at the "longest".
There have been several people, men and women who run a marathon every day for months or even years on end. In that sense there is no upper limit, but those people almost certainly all have a genetic mutation which most people don't that prevents lactic acid buildup.