The evolution of femoral morphology in giant non-avian . . . Another possible constraint would have been the more anteriorly located center of mass associated with a more “avian” knee-based locomotion, which would have constrained the femoral morphology to withstand specific bending stresses, hence limiting the evolution of specialization to extreme body mass increases, which may have been more
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