A shift toward birthing relatively large infants early in human evolution

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1022-1027

  DeSilva, Jeremy M ^a  

^a Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

Climbing; Cooperative breeding; Hominin; Homo

Indexed keywords

ACETABULUM; ARTICLE; AUSTRALOPITHECUS; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY MASS; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN SIZE; CHILDBIRTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FEMUR HEAD; FOSSIL; GORILLA; HOMINID; HUMAN; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMIAN;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; BRAIN; FEMALE; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; ORGAN SIZE;

ARDIPITHECUS; AUSTRALOPITHECUS; HOMINIDAE; PAN; SIMIIFORMES;

EID: 79551632073     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1003865108     Document Type: Article

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