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Cliff-edge model predicts intergenerational predisposition to dystocia and Caesarean delivery

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0 Published in 2017 at "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America"

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1712203114

Abstract: Significance The cliff-edge model explains the evolutionary persistence of relatively high incidences of fetopelvic disproportion (FPD), the mismatch of fetal and maternal dimensions during human childbirth. It also predicts that FPD rates have increased evolutionarily… read more here.

Keywords: cliff edge; model; edge model; women born ... See more keywords