For decades, we’ve thought that childbirth is uniquely challenging for humans, but it turns out that many other primates find the birth process just as difficult
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For decades, we’ve thought that childbirth is uniquely challenging for humans, but it turns out that many other primates find the birth process just as difficult
By Colin Barras
29 June 2026
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Scientists just found that childbirth can be harder than humans thought, because many primates, from tiny tamarins to bush babies, have babies whose heads nearly outsize the birth canal, and some species even dislocate pelvic bones to get through it
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