New Study: Why Do Men and Women Walk Differently? The Answer May Lie with the Neanderthals

Israeli-Spanish study challenges long-held View of human pelvis evolution

The study suggests that Neanderthal man may have retained an ancestral form also found in modern human females, while the modern human male pelvis underwent significant evolutionary changes.

This is why women and men walk differently

Tel Aviv University-led study offers an evolutionary explanation for pelvic differences, finding that modern men developed a spring-like mechanism that absorbs shock, stores energy and makes long-distance walking more efficient, while women evolved differently

New study: Why do men and women walk differently? The answer may lie with the neanderthals

Researchers found that the modern human male pelvis, not the human female pelvis nor the Neanderthal pelvis, represents the evolutionary innovation

Pelvis morphology of Neanderthals and modern humans

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences—Mismatched evolutionary constraints between childbirth and locomotion are unlikely to have driven human pelvis shape, according to a study*. The Obstetrical Dilemma Hypothesis suggests that the shape of the human pelvis is an evolutionary compromise between the need to give birth to large-brained babies and to maintain bipedal locomotion.... Read more »