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Claire T. Farley ()
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Claire T. Farley: Locomotion Laboratory, 3060 Valley Life Sciences Building, University of California

Nature, 1998, vol. 394, issue 6695, 721-722

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.

Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1038/29395

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