Constructing Animal Locomotion from New Thermodynamics Theory
By Adrian Bejan, James Marden
Although running, flying and swimming appear to be distinctly different types of movement, they may have underlying physics in common
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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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