Bipedalism in lizards: Whole-body modelling reveals a possible spandrel

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 358, Issue 1437, 2003, Pages 1525-1533

  Aerts, Peter ^a   Van Damme, Raoul ^a   D'Août, Kristiaan ^a   Van Hooydonck, Bieke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Bipedalism; Lizards; Modelling

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BIPEDALISM; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; LIZARD;

ACANTHODACTYLUS; ACANTHODACTYLUS ERYTHRURUS; ANIMALIA; LACERTIDAE; SQUAMATA;

EID: 0141814631     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2003.1342     Document Type: Conference Paper

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