The economy of the shape of limbed animals

Biological Cybernetics

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 23-29

  Changizi, Mark A ^a,b  

^a SCHAFER CORPORATION   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER; INVERTEBRATE; LIMB; PHYSIOLOGY; VERTEBRATE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTERS; EXTREMITIES; INVERTEBRATES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 0035218621     PISSN: 03401200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004220170002     Document Type: Article

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