posture
- Shock attenuation in the human lumbar spine during walking and running
Highlighted Article: Human lumbar lordosis helps balance our bipedal trunk but also plays an important role in attenuating shocks transmitted through the spine during high-impact activities such as running.
- Increasing trunk flexion transforms human leg function into that of birds despite different leg morphology
Summary: Mimicking a bird's horizontal trunk orientation leads to a bird-like leg function in humans despite different morphology of the segmented legs.
- Differential sex-specific walking kinematics in leghorn chickens (Gallus gallus domesticus) selectively bred for different body size
Summary: In two size classes of layer chicken, sexually dimorphic walking kinematics is linked to the differential muscle force, work and power demands of varied visceral and muscle proportions.