The Evolution of Difficult Childbirth and Helpless Hominin Infants
The Evolution of Difficult Childbirth and Helpless Hominin Infants
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DOI：
10.1146/annurev-anthro-102214-013918
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发表时间：
2015-01-01
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Eccleston, Leah
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Dunsworth, Holly;Eccleston, Leah
由于对行为、社会和文化进化的影响，人类分娩进化史的重建受到两个主要问题的驱动：第一，分娩何时变得困难？其次，难产是否与婴儿的无助有关？在这里，我们回顾现有的证据，并考虑这些问题的答案。尽管最终的时间框架仍不清楚，但分娩可能直到最近才会达到我们现在的困难状态(
Because of the implications for behavioral, social, and cultural evolution, reconstructions of the evolutionary history of human parturition are driven by two main questions: First, when did childbirth become difficult? And second, does difficult childbirth have something to do with infant helplessness? Here we review the available evidence and consider answers to these questions. Although the definitive timeframe remains unclear, childbirth may not have reached our present state of difficulty until fairly recently (