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The genetic architecture and evolutionary consequences of the human pelvic form

2024-05-03

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Human pelvic shape has undergone significant evolutionary change since the divergence from the chimpanzee lineage. This transformation, involving the reduction of the pelvic canal size to support bipedal locomotion, is thought to give rise to the obstetrical dilemma, a hypothesis highlighting the mismatch between the large brain size of infants and the narrowed birth canal in females. Empirical evidence for this c...

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Literature Corpus work: 4eb3d76a-f5a1-5b97-927d-df32a5c263ae
DOI: 10.1101/2024.05.02.592256

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