“ We’ve been doing anthropology with this warped view of the male pelvis as the ideal form, while the female pelvis is seen as less than ideal because of childbirth,” she said. “The female births the babies. So if there’s an ideal, it’s female and it’s no more compromised than anything else out there. Selection maintains its adequacy for locomotion and for childbirth. “If it didn’t, we’d have gone extinct,” Dunsworth said.
Long-held theory on human gestation refuted: Mother’s metabolism, not birth canal size, limits gestation (via outlawmidwives)
(via outlawmidwives)
