Why not walk faster?

Biology Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 338-341

  Usherwood, James Richard ^a  

^a ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biped; Inverted pendulum; Run; Transition; Walk

Indexed keywords

BIPEDALISM; MECHANICS;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; GRAVITY; KINETICS; LEG LENGTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUNNING; WALKING; WALKING SPEED;

AVES;

EID: 25444477844     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2005.0312     Document Type: Article

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