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Understanding Mammalian Locomotion will formally introduce the emerging perspective of collision dynamics in mammalian terrestrial locomotion and explain how it influences the interpretation of form and functional capabilities. The objective is to bring the reader interested in the function and mechanics of mammalian terrestrial locomotion to a sophisticated conceptual understanding of the relevant mechanics and the current debate ongoing in the field.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- CHAPTER ONE: Concepts Through Time: Historical Perspectives on Mammalian Locomotion
- CHAPTER TWO: Considering Gaits: Descriptive Approaches
- CHAPTER THREE: Muscles as Actuators
- CHAPTER FOUR: Concepts in Locomotion: Levers, Struts, Pendula and Springs
- CHAPTER FIVE: Concepts in Locomotion: Wheels, Spokes, Collisions and Insight from the Center of Mass
- CHAPTER SIX: Reductionist Models of Walking and Running
- CHAPTER SEVEN: Whole-Body Mechanics: How Leg Compliance Shapes the Way We Move
- CHAPTER EIGHT: The Most Important Feature of an Organism’s Biology: Dimension, Similarity and Scale
- CHAPTER NINE: Accounting for the Influence of Animal Size on Biomechanical Variables: Concepts and Considerations
- CHAPTER TEN: Locomotion in Small Tetrapods: Size-Based Limitations to “Universal Rules” in Locomotion
- CHAPTER ELEVEN: Non-Steady Locomotion
- CHAPTER TWELVE: The Evolution of Terrestrial Locomotion in Bats: The Bad, the Ugly, and the Good
- CHAPTER THIRTEEN: The Fight or Flight Dichotomy: Functional Trade-Off in Specialization for Aggression Versus Locomotion
- CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Design for Prodigious Size without Extreme Body Mass: Dwarf Elephants, Differential Scaling and Implications for Functional Adaptation
- CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Basic Mechanisms of Bipedal Locomotion: Head-Supported Loads and Strategies to Reduce the Cost of Walking
- CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Would a Horse on the Moon Gallop? Directions Available in Locomotion Research (and How Not to Spend Too Much Time Exploring Blind Alleys)
- Index
- End User License Agreement
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