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

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Is It a Chicken Anegg Problem?

Is it sort of a chicken anegg problem, where selective pressures led to the evolve, to the evolution of our bigger brains and then that allowed for longer life histories? Or could it have been the other way around? Do we know anything about it? No. But humans seem to have evolved aa metabolism, to our total energy iture that is just well above the other apes. Andand that would help facilitate things like growing these really big brains and maintaining those really big brains.

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