Covariation between human pelvis shape, stature, and head size alleviates the obstetric dilemma

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

Volumn 112, Issue 18, 2015, Pages 5655-5660

  Fischer, Barbara ^a,b   Mitteroecker, Philipp ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Correlational selection; Evolution; Morphometrics; Obstetric dilemma; Pelvis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; BONE LENGTH; CEPHALOMETRY; CEPHALOPELVIC DISPROPORTION; CHILDBIRTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; FEMALE; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; MACROCEPHALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NEWBORN; PELVIS; PELVIS SHAPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBIS SYMPHYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SHORT STATURE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BIRTH; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EVOLUTION; HEAD; IMAGE PROCESSING; OBSTETRICS; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PROCEDURES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

PRIMATES;

ANTHROPOLOGY, PHYSICAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BODY HEIGHT; FEMALE; HEAD; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MODELS, ANATOMIC; OBSTETRICS; PARTURITION; PELVIS; PREGNANCY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84928978576     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1420325112     Document Type: Article

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