Motion and muscles don't always work in lockstep, researchers find in surprising new study

Friday, March 14, 2014 - 06:30 in Biology & Nature

(Phys.org) —Animals "do the locomotion" every day, whether it's walking down the hall to get some coffee or darting up a tree to avoid a predator. And until now, scientists believed the inner workings of movement were pretty much the same—the nerves send a message to the muscles and there is motion.

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