Inertial properties of hominoid limb segments

Journal of Anatomy

Volumn 209, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 201-218

  Isler, Karin ^a   Payne, Rachel C ^b   Günther, Michael M ^b   Thorpe, Susannah K S ^c   Li, Yu ^b   Savage, Russell ^b   Crompton, Robin H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Centre of mass; Hominoidea; Moments of inertia; Primates; Segment mass

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APE; ARTICLE; CADAVER; CHIMPANZEE; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; FEMALE; FORELIMB; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; GORILLA; HINDLIMB; HOMINID; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KINEMATICS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NONHUMAN; ORANG UTAN; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; WALKING;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; FORELIMB; GAIT; HINDLIMB; HOMINIDAE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

ANIMALIA; CERCOPITHECOIDEA; HOMINOIDEA; MAMMALIA; PAN; PRIMATES;

EID: 33746647333     PISSN: 00218782     EISSN: 14697580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7580.2006.00588.x     Document Type: Article

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