Morphology and biomechanics are linked by causal morphogenesis ('Wolff's law') and the
interplay of mutations and selection (Darwin's 'survival of the fittest'). Thus shape‐based …

One of the great ongoing debates in palaeo‐anthropology is when, and how, hominids
acquired habitual bipedal locomotion. The newly adopted bipedal gait and the ancestral …

Quadrupedal walking and running are certainly not the first things that come to mind when
one considers unique aspects of primate locomotion. However, there is a growing body of …

The evolution of therian mammals is to a large degree marked by changes in their motion
systems. One of the decisive transitions has been from the sprawled, bi-segmented to the …

The characteristics of" climbing" in the sense of locomotion or posture on three dimensional
substrates are discussed from a biomechanical viewpoint. For this purpose, the mechanical …

In vivo bone strain experiments were performed on the ulnae of three female rhesus
macaques to test how the bone deforms during locomotion. The null hypothesis was that, in …

Primate quadrupeds are said to use relatively large limb excursions for mammals of their
body size. Until recently, this claim was based on a comparison of hindlimb excursion data …

The cross-sectional properties of mammalian limb bones provide an important source of
information about their loading history and locomotor adaptations. It has been suggested, for …

External length is one of the most conspicuous aspects of mammalian tail morphological
diversity. Factors that influence the evolution of tail length diversity have been proposed for …

Zoological Physics presents a physicist's view of life. The primary life functions of animals,
such as eating, growing, reproducing and getting around all depend on motion: Motion of …