A popular hypothesis regarding legged locomotion is that humans and other large animals
walk and run in a manner that minimizes the metabolic energy expenditure for locomotion …

Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) habitually walk both bipedally and quadrupedally, and have
been a common point of reference for understanding the evolution of bipedal locomotion in …

For centuries, elephant locomotion has been a contentious and confusing challenge for
locomotion scientists to understand, not only because of technical difficulties but also …

Evolutionary biomechanics is the study of evolution through the analysis of biomechanical
systems. Its unique advantage is the precision with which physical constraints and …

Gait is inherent to human life and hence its importance is often overlooked. But walking
remains the most basic form of transportation and almost all journeys begin and end with a …

On a treadmill, humans switch from walking to running beyond a characteristic transition
speed. Here, we study human choice between walking and running in a more ecological …

Sex differences in human locomotion are of interest in a broad variety of interdisciplinary
applications. Although kinematic sex differences have been studied for many years, the …

Mechanically, the most economical gait for slow bipedal locomotion requires walking as an
'inverted pendulum', with: I, an impulsive, energy-dissipating leg compression at the …

The ostrich (Struthio camelus) is widely appreciated as a fast and agile bipedal athlete, and
is a useful comparative bipedal model for human locomotion. Here, we used GPS-IMU …

Human bipedal locomotion is characterized by a habitual heel-strike (HS) plantigrade gait,
yet the significance of walking foot-posture is not well understood. To date, researchers have …