... for correspondence (e-mail: pontzer@fas.harvard.edu ) 4 11 2005 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2006 2006 Wolff's law trabecular bone skeletal biology biomechanics knee joint guinea fowl Since the late 19th century, it has been suggested that the thin struts and plates...

... ( l thigh ) segments. If two circles are drawn with the tuber coxae and knee joint as origins and radius equivalent to the length of the appropriate segments, there will be two places where the circumferences of the circles overlap (or one if the segments are oriented in a straight line...