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The effect of foot posture on capacity to apply free moments to the ground: implications for fighting performance in great apes
David R. Carrier, Christopher Cunningham
Biology Open 2017 6: 269-277; doi: 10.1242/bio.022640
David R. Carrier
Department of Biology, University of Utah, 257 S. 1400 E., Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
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vol. 6 no. 2, 269-277

DOI 
https://doi.org/10.1242/bio.022640
PubMed 
28202470

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The Company of Biologists Ltd
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2046-6390
History 
  • Received October 26, 2016
  • Accepted January 3, 2017
  • Published online February 15, 2017.
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February 15, 2017
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© 2017. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium provided that the original work is properly attributed.


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  1. David R. Carrier1 and
  2. Christopher Cunningham2,*
  1. 1Department of Biology, University of Utah, 257 S. 1400 E., Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
  2. 2Department of Biosciences, Swansea University, Swansea, Wales SA2 8PP, UK
  1. ↵*Author for correspondence (carrier{at}biology.utah.edu)
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