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Motion is one of the essential requisites for life, since besides motility all (other) characterizing properties of living organisms as self-reproduction, mutability and metabolism require some kind of movement, occuring on different organizational levels: Displacement or locomotion of whole organisms (cells, plants, animals) and their primary offsprings (spores, seeds, gametes) as well as movement of their organs (hearts, legs, antennae) and of various organelles (flagella, protoplasma).
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Alt, W., Hoffmann, G. (1990). Introduction. In: Alt, W., Hoffmann, G. (eds) Biological Motion. Lecture Notes in Biomathematics, vol 89. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-51664-1_1
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