Constructing Animal Locomotion from New Thermodynamics Theory

Although running, flying and swimming appear to be distinctly different types of movement, they may have underlying physics in common

Biology Evolution Physics Anatomy

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July-August 2006

Volume 94, Number 4
Page 342

DOI: 10.1511/2006.60.342

The late paleontologist and evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould argued that if the clock of evolution could be rewound to the beginning and allowed to run again to the present day, the resulting animals on Earth would be very different from the ones we know now.

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