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#561 Anna Warrener: The Evolution of the Human Pelvis, Bipedalism, and Childbirth

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Did Our Life History Influence the Evolution of the Female Pelvic?

The female pelvis tends to be wider in females than it is in males. In humans do have sexually demorphic palve. And so they're sort of three different planes that people talk about the infant having pass through, and each one of those is expanded in women. The change in a simply having big brains very likely place direct selective pressure on the female palvis to accommodate that big brained baby.

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