A Cineradiographic Analysis of Bird Flight: The Wishbone in Starlings Is a Spring

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• Publication year

  1988

• Venue

  Science

• Publication date

  1988-09-16

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Geology

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  DOI 10.1126/science.241.4872.1495PMID 17790043
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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