In many traditional societies, women's age at marriage acts simultaneously as a gateway to
new family roles and the likelihood of producing offspring. However, inadequate attention …

Human height is a highly variable trait, both within and between populations, has a high
heritability, and influences the manner in which people behave and are treated in society …

The fossil record of the human pelvis reveals the selective priorities acting on hominin
anatomy at different points in our evolutionary history, during which mechanical …

The Primate Origins of Human Nature (Volume 3 in The Foundations of Human Biology
series) blends several elements from evolutionary biology as applied to primate behavioral …

The term 'obstetrical dilemma'was coined by Washburn in 1960 to describe the trade‐off
between selection for a larger birth canal, permitting successful passage of a big‐brained …

India has rapidly become a “diabetes capital” of the world, despite maintaining high rates of
under-nutrition. Indians develop diabetes at younger age and at lower body weights than …

This paper proposes a novel method for selecting orthophoto mosaic seamline network
using a continuous space ant colony algorithm. The method first establishes a cost function …

The domestication of plants and animals is central to the familiar and now outdated story of
civilization's emergence. Intertwined with colonialism and imperial expansion, the …

The shape of the human female pelvis is thought to reflect an evolutionary trade-off between
two competing demands: a pelvis wide enough to permit the birth of large-brained infants …

The human birth canal shows a tight fit with the size of the neonate, which can lead to
obstetric complications. This is not the case in other apes, and has been explained as the …