User:Stephdc/Bipedalism

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According to Wenda R. Trevathan from New Mexico State University, women don’t have control over their body and the birthing process due to the fact large historically rooted social groups that may have already made decisions about where the birth should take place, what position the woman should take and how bipedalism helped changes in birth. Birth is quite difficult for most primate species. One of the signs of this mammalian request is an enormous proportion of mind or body size. This implies that the entry of the fetal head through the maternal pelvis is by a large difficult situation. Along these lines, mortality from cephalopelvic lopsidedness isn't irrelevant in primate species, for example, marmosets, squirrel monkeys, baboons. Modern primates accomplished birth without assistance and most likely human ancestors did before 5 million years ago. Approximately 5 million years ago selection began to favor the anatomical and behavioral changes that led to bipedal walking in  hominids(Lovejoy 1988). Whatever the“cause”of this new mode of locomotion (unlike that of any other animal species ) or the benefits ,it resulted in fundamental changes in the way birth occurred. In quadrupeds such as apes, the infant usually enters and exits the birth channel in the same direction as the mother, without the need for rotation. Trevathan has argued that the origin of bipedalism had risks of mortality from unattended birth which became greater risks with others' help.