Long-held theory on human gestation refuted: Mother’s metabolism, not birth canal size, limits gestation

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An anthropologist suggests that the length of human pregnancy is limited primarily by a mother's metabolism, not the size of the birth canal. The research challenges the long-held notion of an evolutionary trade-off between childbirth and a pelvis adapted for walking upright.

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