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Obstetrical Constraints and the Origin of Extended Postnatal Brain Maturation in Hominin Evolution
- Pierre Frémondière,
- Martin Haeusler,
- Lionel Thollon,
- Nicole M. Webb and
- François Marchal
The origin of difficult birth is still a matter of debate in obstetrics. Recent studies hypothesized that early hominins already experienced obstructed labor even with reduced neonatal head sizes. The aim of this work is to test this hypothesis using...