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Properties and Mechanisms of Locomotion

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An account of any behavior must include descriptions of both its “properties” and its “mechanisms.” The “properties” of locomotion include its topographical characteristics, the kinematics, or movement in space and time, and an analysis of these in terms of masses and forces, kinetics. There are two groups of “mechanisms” to be considered. One of these concerns the hardware of which the organism is composed, and the functional relationships between the components. This mechanism has received much attention from neurophysiologists, who have established functional connections between neurons by examining impulses in numerous cells under many different conditions of activation.

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