"Macaques are closely related to humans, they are primates, and they also give birth to really large fetuses, compared to the size of the birth canal of their mothers - just like humans." ...

Human babies barely fit through the birth canal. And even after all that trouble ... the smallest percentage of any primate (including chimpanzees, which are born with brains around 40 percent their ...

“We show genetic correlation between birth canal and head widths,” explained Liaoyi Xu, first author of the study and a ...

Certain genes shared between mothers and their babies influence both the size of the mother’s birth canal and the baby’s head ...

A combined study on the morphology of the human pelvis – leveraging genetics and deep learning on data from more than 31,000 individuals – reveals genetic links between pelvic structure and function, ...