Birth and human evolution : anatomical and obstetrical mechanics in primates /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Abitbol, M. Maurice
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: 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