The Problematic, Newfangled Hack That Is the Human Leg
by Veronique Greenwood
Jul 18, 2013
2 minutes
If you were to design a leg for a bipedal animal from scratch, what would it look like? Don’t bother looking down at your own body for inspiration—you won’t find a good model there.
If you want to make a really good bipedal leg, you should make one a lot like an ostrich’s, and nothing like a human’s
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