Mechanical self-stabilization, a working hypothesis for the study of the evolution of body proportions in terrestrial mammals?

Comptes Rendus - Palevol

Volumn 5, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 541-549

  Hackert, Rémi ^a,b   Schilling, Nadja ^a   Fischer, Martin S ^a  

^a Institut für Spezielle Zoologie   (Germany)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Body proportion; Locomotion; Quadruped mammals; Running; Stability

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; NEUROLOGY; OPTIMIZATION; STIFFNESS;

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; LOCOMOTION; MAMMAL; MECHANICS; NERVOUS SYSTEM; SIMULATION;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 33646941579     PISSN: 16310683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crpv.2005.10.010     Document Type: Article

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