Cliff-edge model of obstetric selection in humans

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

Volumn 113, Issue 51, 2016, Pages 14680-14685

  Mitteroecker, Philipp ^a   Huttegger, Simon M ^b   Fischer, Barbara ^c   Pavlicev, Mihaela ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c KONRAD LORENZ INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTION AND COGNITION RESEARCH   (Austria)

^d CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cephalopelvic disproportion; Human evolution; Natural selection; Obstetric dilemma; Obstructed labor

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CEPHALOPELVIC DISPROPORTION; CESAREAN SECTION; DIRECTIONAL SELECTION; FEMALE; FETUS; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMAN; LABOR; LABOR COMPLICATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NATURAL CHILDBIRTH; NEWBORN; OBSTETRICS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SHOULDER DYSTOCIA; ALGORITHM; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BIOMECHANICS; BIRTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION; INCIDENCE; MALE; PELVIS; PREGNANCY; PROCEDURES; RISK; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; CEPHALOPELVIC DISPROPORTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT, NEWBORN; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OBSTETRICS; PARTURITION; PELVIS; PHENOTYPE; PREGNANCY; RISK;

EID: 85006413287     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1612410113     Document Type: Article

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