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Step by Step: The Forefoot as Natural Norm of Human Gait

2026-05-07

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The heel-strike (HS) paradigm of human gait originates from 19th-century chronophotographic studies conducted on Georges Demeny, a gymnasium instructor whose performed, exaggerated gait was never representative of natural locomotion. A compounding martial bias further normalised HS through military marching drill. A multi-disciplinary convergent argument analysis is conducted, integrating philological, zoological,...

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Literature Corpus work: 5216f1be-06eb-5fb3-8a2c-d4c697a8dde0
DOI: 10.20944/preprints202603.0733.v2

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