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 …

Human habitation and adaptation to extreme environments have a deep history in
anthropological research. Anthropologists' understanding of these ecological pressures and …

The rules and structure of human culture impact health as much as genetics or environment.
To study these relationships, we combine ancient DNA (n= 230), skeletal metrics (n= 391) …

The relative contributions of genetics and environment to temporal and geographic variation
in human height remain largely unknown. Ancient DNA has identified changes in genetic …

Models for future environmental change all involve global warming, whether slow or fast.
Predicting how plants and animals will respond to such warming can be aided by using …

A large body of work focuses on the unique aspects of Neanderthal anatomy, inferred
physiology, and behavior to test the assumption that Neanderthals were hyper‐adapted to …

There is a growing consensus that global patterns of modern human cranial and dental
variation are shaped largely by neutral evolutionary processes, suggesting that craniodental …

It seems puzzling why humans have evolved such a small and rigid birth canal that entails a
relatively complex process of labor compared with the birth canal of our closest relatives, the …

The family Phyllostomidae, which evolved in the New World during the last 30 million years,
represents one of the largest and most morphologically diverse mammal families. Due to its …

Morphological integration refers to the fact that different phenotypic traits of organisms are
not fully independent from each other, and tend to covary to different degrees. The …