Oliver E. Demuth

1 month ago | biorxiv.org | Oliver E. Demuth |John Hutchinson |Vittorio la Barbera |Sharon Warner

AbstractJoints and their surrounding soft tissues facilitate and restrict vertebrate skeletal motion. Measures of maximal joint mobility provide insight into articular function and its limits on potential joint motion and thereby behaviour. In extinct vertebrates the reconstruction of joint mobility permits us to decipher shifts in locomotor evolution. Such measurements are generally limited to studies of osteological joint mobility.