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Childbirth is not uniquely difficult to humans

The tight fit of a baby's head through a mother's birth canal, which causes great difficulty in childbirth, is not unique to humans, as previously understood. Instead, some small-bodied primate babies have heads almost twice as large as their mothers' pelvic space, a new study led by UCL researchers...

Childbirth is not uniquely difficult to humans
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The tight fit of a baby's head through a mother's birth canal, which causes great difficulty in childbirth, is not unique to humans, as previously understood. Instead, some small-bodied primate babies have heads almost twice as large as their mothers' pelvic space, a new study led by UCL researchers has found.

Originally published at Phys.org

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