Hominin Obstetrics and the Evolution of Constraints

Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 57-75

  Grabowski, Mark W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Bipedalism; Birth; Evolutionary constraints; Human evolution; Integration; Morphological evolution; Natural selection; Pelvis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874348855     PISSN: 00713260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11692-012-9174-7     Document Type: Article

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