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The voluntary control of movement utilizes both learned and genetically determined motor programs. One example of the latter category is the neural circuitry utilized to initiate, maintain and modify the locomotor movements. In some vertebrates this circuitry is already functioning at birth (e.g. gazelles, horses) or after hatching (fish, tadpoles or chickens) in other species it matures after birth to function only at a later stage (pups, kittens or human infants). Despite these differences it appears likely that the control systems from cyclostomes, fish, amphibians to reptiles, birds and mammals have essential features in common (see Grillner 1985).
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Grillner, S. (1985). The Central Nervous System Utilizes a Simple Control Strategy to Generate the Synergy Used to Control Locomotion. In: Haken, H. (eds) Complex Systems — Operational Approaches in Neurobiology, Physics, and Computers. Springer Series in Synergetics, vol 31. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70795-7_10
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