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Biological anthropology

the proposal that birth timing is set by the mother's metabolic ceiling for supporting fetal growth, not mainly by pelvic width.

In biological anthropology, energetics of gestation and growth hypothesis refers to the proposal that birth timing is set by the mother's metabolic ceiling for supporting fetal growth, not mainly by pelvic width. This meaning comes from Dunsworth (2012) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.[1]

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Dunsworth, H. M., Warrener, A. G., Deacon, T., Ellison, P. T., & Pontzer, H. (2012). Metabolic hypothesis for human altriciality. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109(38), 15212-15216. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1205282109

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