Comparative primate birth mechanics and the evolution of human childbirth
Modern humans have large, encephalized neonates, delivered through an anteroposteriorly narrow maternal pelvis constrained by adaptation to bipedality. As a result, human birth is unusually laborious, difficult, and dangerous. The evolutionary background for these difficulties is unclear. Previous...
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2019
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/2144/37087 |