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Robert McNeill Alexander
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Emeritus Professor of Zoology, University of Leeds, England. Author of Elastic Mechanisms in Animal Movement and others.

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Diagram showing the structure of human striated or skeletal muscle, with labeled cross-sections from whole muscle to fascicle, muscle fiber, myofibril, and sarcomere, highlighting actin and myosin filaments.
Muscle, contractile tissue found in animals, the function of which is to produce motion. Movement, the intricate cooperation of muscle and nerve fibres, is the means by which an organism interacts with its environment. The innervation of muscle cells, or fibres, permits an animal to carry out the…
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