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1 1 | laterally away from the body. Again, why do quadrupeds 2 3 | some move with the whole body at once, for example jumping 3 3 | at least two parts of the body; one part so to speak squeezes, 4 4 | the differentiation in the body itself and so progress, 5 7 | constructed like a continuous body of many separate living 6 8 | effected by part of the body at a time, and not by the 7 8 | all on which to rest the body’s weight, in the former 8 9 | whole of the rest of the body up to this, and so they 9 9 | flexion in the part of the body which is underneath, and 10 9 | flexion of the rest of their body for the (missing) pair of 11 9 | fins, and the flat of their body as a substitute for the 12 9 | or semicircles of their body, bending and straightening 13 10| begins in the joints of the body.~In winged creatures the 14 10| proportionate to the bulk of their body; this is heavy, their wings 15 11| the superior parts of the body lighter, and those that 16 11| to the upper parts of his body than any other animal with 17 11| consequently the whole body would be tilted forward. 18 11| is. For as it holds its body now the wings are naturally 19 12| stationary with the weight of the body on it, and when they move 20 12| the leg will be while the body is going forwards, but, 21 12| in the forepart of their body. The reason that they bend 22 15| the forward parts of the body lighter than the hind, and 23 15| thigh so placed below the body as it actually is, I mean 24 15| obliquely as their whole body sprawls over the ground, 25 15| the lifting of the whole body. In view of this they cannot 26 17| birds in the centre of their body, but rather set back. Their