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Why Should We Care about the Pelvis Specifically?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 December 2019
Even before the focus on bipedalism as the ‘hallmark’ of the human lineage (Robinson, 1972), interest in the pelvis was stimulated by discussions across different disciplines, including the growing field of obstetrics (see review in Walrath, 2003), as well as by multiple fossil discoveries (Pycraft, 1930; Dart, 1949). It was also clear at the outset that the pelvis was going to serve as a crucial part of the evolutionary history of humans, given that it had obvious functional implications in its role in locomotion, which included dramatic differences between other species grouped with humans taxonomically and then phylogenetically, including the African and Asian apes.
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