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1 1 | in number.~Next, why are man and bird bipeds, but fish 2 1 | fish footless; and why do man and bird, though both bipeds, 3 1 | curvature of the legs. For man bends his legs convexly, 4 1 | his bent concavely; again, man bends his arms and legs 5 1 | opposite directions to a man’s, and in opposite directions 6 4 | alike right-handed. And man has the left limbs detached 7 4 | separate from it, and so in man the right is more especially 8 4 | only reasonable that in man the left should be most 9 4 | movable, and most detached. In man, too, the other starting-points 10 5 | are erect, and of bipeds, man par excellence; for man 11 5 | man par excellence; for man is the most natural of bipeds. 12 9 | exhibits the fact. If a man were to walk parallel to 13 10| without their wings. Even a man does not walk without moving 14 11| carry itself easily. And so man, the only erect animal, 15 11| not be a biped. As in a man or a quadruped, the thigh 16 11| erect in the sense in which man is. For as it holds its 17 12| in the opposite way to a man’s limbs. For men bend their 18 12| one forward motion.~Now man, being a biped and making 19 12| the same as in the case of man, for in this respect they 20 13| elephant among quadrupeds and man if you consider his arms 21 13| and his legs convexly.~In man, too, the flexions of the