Optimum stiffness for leg bones
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- 1 November 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Zoology
- Vol. 222 (3) , 471-478
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1990.tb04045.x
Abstract
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