Dr. Anna Warrener published a paper in Evolutionary Anthropology that discusses the evolution of the human pelvis. She argues that biological anthropologists have used a dubious evolutionary model, the Obstetrical Dilemma, to explain why humans sometimes have difficult childbirth, and advocates for an expanded framework called the Multifactor Pelvis. This new approach broadens the evolutionary explanations for the shape of the modern human pelvis and helps us better understand the proximate causes of potential birth difficulty.
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