Locomotion. Just skip it
Abstract
When four-legged animals want to move quickly they gallop — a gait that was thought to have no equivalent in humans. But a new paper shows that skipping in humans is biomechanically similar to galloping. In both cases, pendulums and springs collaborate to conserve mechanical energy.
Autor: Farley CT
Jahr: 1998
- Nature.
- 1998
- 394(6695)
- 721-3
GID: 94
Erstellt am: 16.12.2007