How Do Humans Learn to Walk? (VIDEO)

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In this video, senior author Francesco Lacquaniti explains the evolutionary origins of human walking. This video relates to a paper that appeared in the Nov. 18, 2011, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by N. Dominici of IRCCS Santa Lucia Foundation in Rome, Italy, and colleagues, was titled, “Locomotor Primitives in Newborn Babies and Their Development.”

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