Researchers have made a virtual reconstruction of a female Neanderthal pelvis found in Israel. Although the size of the reconstructed birth canal shows that Neanderthal childbirth was about as ...

If the scene inside a modern-day maternity ward seems stressful and primal, Cara Ratner wants you to imagine what it was like to bring a baby into the world in the days before 911 and anesthesia.

In the hot & heavy debate over “natural” v. “painless” childbirth, the naturalist school has a pet argument: childbirth among primitive peoples, they contend, is easier than among women “degenerated ...

We humans have long viewed ourselves as the pinnacle of evolution. People label other species as “primitive” or “ancient” and use terms like “higher” and “lower” animals. This anthropocentric ...