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Secular changes in body height predict global rates of caesarean section

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Does obstetric protection apply to small‐bodied females?: A comparison between small‐bodied Jomon foragers and large‐bodied Yayoi agriculturalists in the prehistoric Japanese archipelago

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Assessing the accuracy of body mass estimation equations from pelvic and femoral variables among modern British women of known mass

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Variation in obstetric dimensions of the human bony pelvis in relation to age-at-death and latitude

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Which Foetal-Pelvic Variables Are Useful for Predicting Caesarean Section and Instrumental Assistance

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Geometric morphometrics reveals restrictions on the shape of the femaleos coxae

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Allometric scaling and locomotor function in the primate pelvis

(2015) Kristi L. Lewton   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Ontogeny of Size and Shape Sexual Dimorphism in the Pubis: A Multislice Computed Tomography Study by Geometric Morphometry

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Between Scylla and Charybdis: renegotiating resolution of the 'obstetric dilemma' in response to ecological change

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

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A Wider Pelvis Does Not Increase Locomotor Cost in Humans, with Implications for the Evolution of Childbirth

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The interaction of neutral evolutionary processes with climatically-driven adaptive changes in the 3D shape of the human os coxae

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Studying morphological integration and modularity at multiple levels: concepts and analysis

(2014) C. P. Klingenberg   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Integrated phenotypes: understanding trait covariation in plants and animals

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Skeletal variability in the pelvis and limb skeleton of humans: Does stabilizing selection limit female pelvic variation?

(2013) Helen K. Kurki   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN BIOLOGY

Global Geometric Morphometric Analyses of the Human Pelvis Reveal Substantial Neutral Population History Effects, Even across Sexes

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The obstetric dilemma: An ancient game of Russian roulette, or a variable dilemma sensitive to ecology?

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Hominin Obstetrics and the Evolution of Constraints

(2012) Mark W. Grabowski   Evolutionary Biology

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Short stature as an independent risk factor for cephalopelvic disproportion in a country of relatively small-sized mothers

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(2011) Annat Haber   Evolutionary Biology

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(2011) Kristi L. Lewton   Evolutionary Biology

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(2011) Helen K. Kurki   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

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(2009) Richard J. Smith   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Measuring Morphological Integration Using Eigenvalue Variance

(2009) Mihaela Pavlicev et al.   Evolutionary Biology

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(2009) Kenneth ES Poole et al.   JOURNAL OF BONE AND MINERAL RESEARCH

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