Ground-reaction-force profiles of bipedal walking in bipedally trained Japanese monkeys

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 302-308

  Ogihara, Naomichi ^a   Hirasaki, Eishi ^b   Kumakura, Hiroo ^b   Nakatsukasa, Masato ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bipedalism; Inverted pendulum; Joint mobility; Kinetics; Macaca fuscata

Indexed keywords

BIPEDALISM; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; KINETICS; MORPHOLOGY; PRIMATE; TRAINING;

JAPANESE MONKEYS; MACACA; MACACA FUSCATA;

EID: 34548274606     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2007.04.004     Document Type: Article

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