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Locomotor Adaptations

Locomotor Adaptations is a class of evolutionary modifications of the musculoskeletal and associated neuromotor systems that optimize an organism’s movement performance relative to specific modes of locomotion and environmental substrates, as characterized in comparative anatomical analysis.

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Central programming of postural movements: adaptation to altered support-surface configurations

Fay B. Horak, Lewis M. Nashner · Journal of Neurophysiology · 1986 · 2.4K citations

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Exercise Enhances Learning and Hippocampal Neurogenesis in Aged Mice

Henriette van Praag, Tiffany E. Shubert, Chunmei Zhao et al. · Journal of Neuroscience · 2005 · 2.1K citations · Full text

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Endurance running and the evolution of Homo

Dennis M. Bramble, Daniel E. Lieberman · Nature · 2004 · 1.7K citations

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Integrating Thermal Physiology and Ecology of Ectotherms: A Discussion of Approaches

Raymond B. Huey, R. D. Stevenson · American Zoologist · 1979 · 1.5K citations · Full text

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The intrinsic factors in the act of progression in the mammal

Thomas Graham Brown · Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B Containing Papers of a Biological Character · 1911 · 1.2K citations

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    Theodore Garland

    University of California, Riverside, United States

    94 publications · 8.2K citations

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    Anthony Herrel

    University of Antwerp, Belgium

    77 publications · 3.7K citations

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    Andrew A. Biewener

    Harvard University, United States

    32 publications · 3.4K citations

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    Duncan J. Irschick

    University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States

    39 publications · 3.1K citations

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    Bruce C. Jayne

    University of Cincinnati, United States

    36 publications · 2.8K citations

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  1. Harvard University

    Cambridge, United States

    70 h-index

    305 publications

    37.4K citations

  2. Duke University

    Durham, United States

    50 h-index

    136 publications

    11.1K citations

  3. University of Antwerp

    Antwerp, Belgium

    50 h-index

    213 publications

    11.9K citations

  4. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    48 h-index

    458 publications

    19.7K citations

  5. University of California, Irvine

    Irvine, United States

    48 h-index

    128 publications

    9.7K citations

  6. Stony Brook University

    Stony Brook, United States

    48 h-index

    160 publications

    13K citations

  7. University of California, Los Angeles

    Los Angeles, United States

    46 h-index

    189 publications

    16.6K citations

  8. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    43 h-index

    126 publications

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  1. Journal of Experimental Biology

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  2. American Journal of Physical Anthropology

    154 publications · 13K citations

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  3. Journal of Neurophysiology

    JN · 126 publications · 11.9K citations

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  4. Evolution

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  5. PLoS ONE

    120 publications · 5.7K citations

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