Birth and human evolution : anatomical and obstetrical mechanics in primates /
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Westport, Conn. :
Bergin & Garvey,
1996.
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Frank A. Chervenak and William J. Ledger
- Obstetrical mechanics and evolution
- Definitions
- Anatomy and physiology of parturition in primates
- The mother
- Fetus at term
- Orientation of the primate fetus in the maternal abdomen
- The muscular forces
- Factors affecting the different pelvic shapes
- The male and the female hominid pelvis
- Gynecoidy-androidy
- Anthropoidy-platypelloidy
- The inherent difficulties of pelvic measurements
- Measurements of pelvic and fetal diameters
- The original primate pelvis
- Differences between human pelvis and original primate pelvis
- Evolution and ontogeny of the human pelvis
- Obstetrical mechanics in the human species
- Material and methods
- Observations of mother and fetus before birth
- Observations of the infant after birth
- Results
- Maternal posture for labor-delivery
- Obstetrical mechanics in hominids: general principles
- Adaptation to the new pelvis
- Adaptation of the hominid fetus
- Specific features of the mechanism of birth in hominids
- Parturition in the rhesus monkey: report of twelve cases
- Material and methods
- Results
- Discussion
- Obstetrical mechanics in Pongids
- Review of the literature on obstetrics in chimpanzees
- Head and body measurements in term fetuses of Pan troglodytes
- Maternal pelvis in pongids
- Obstetrics in apes
- Obstetrical mechanics in Lucy
- Observations on living primates to be extended to AI 288-1
- Reconstruction of mechanism of parturition in AI 288-1
- Summary of obstetrical mechanics in AI 288-1
- Important considerations for the study of extinct obstetrics
- Obstetrics in STS 14
- Summary of obstetrical mechanics prior to STS 14
- Obstetrical mechanics in STS 14
- Status of STS 14 pelvis within hominid evolution
- Status of obstetrical mechanics in STS 14 within hominid evolution
- The mechanism of birth in Homo erectus
- Pelvic measurements in KNM WT-15000
- Fetal measurements at term in Homo erectus
- Different stages of labor in Homo erectus
- Obstetrical mechanics in Arago 44
- Pelvic dimensions
- Fetal head dimensions
- Obstetrical mechanics
- Dystocia in Arago 44
- Consideration of other diameters in Arago 44
- Obstetrical mechanics in neanderthals
- The sex gender in Kebara 2
- Pelvic dimensions in "Female" Kebara 2
- Dimensions of the fetal head in the neanderthals
- The shape of the fetal head in the neanderthal
- Obstetrical mechanics in the neanderthal
- Perspective evolution of human obstetrics
- Reproduction and survival
- Dystocia or difficult birth and its causes
- Evolutionary trends in obstetrics