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Walking is an example of the superb integrative action of the nervous system. It is not a learned series of consecutive motor acts but appears as an innate, gestalt phenomenon when other motor skills are still quite primitive, for example, a child may learn to walk at an age when he cannot yet feed himself.
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(2006). Stance, Gait, and Balance. In: Ross, R.T. (eds) How to Examine the Nervous System. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-081-2_12
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