Mechanical constraints canalizing the evolutionary transformation of tetrapod Limbs

Acta Biotheoretica 34 (2-4):157-164 (1985)
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A reconstruction of the anagenetic transformations from fins to tetrapod limbs is represented considering the self-evident mechanical constraints which must have limited the construction and thus the function and the transformation.

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