• A new study challenges the common belief that human childbirth is uniquely difficult and dangerous.
  • Research shows that many other mammals face similar complications and mortality rates.
  • The previous theory of an ‘obstetric dilemma’ – an evolutionary compromise due to a large head and narrow birth canal – is not unique to humans.
  • The study suggests that difficult childbirth is more widespread in the animal kingdom than previously thought.

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