Why aren’t horses faster?
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Publication Date: 1988-04-21 PubMed ID: 3357533DOI: 10.1038/332678a0Google Scholar: Lookup
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Hill WG.
(1988).
Why aren’t horses faster?
Nature, 332(6166), 678.
https://doi.org/10.1038/332678a0 Publication
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MeSH Terms
- Animals
- Horses / genetics
- Running
Citations
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