Are Wide-Hipped Women Promiscuous? Study Births a Controversy

Women with wide hips have more sexual partners, purports a new study making the rounds in the media. "In order for this to really be supported, somebody has got to test this same kind of thing in a lot of populations," said Wenda Trevathan, a biological anthropologist at New Mexico State University, who was not involved with the research. The study began with an oft-cited theory called the obstetrical dilemma, which holds that humans sacrificed relative ease of childbirth for standing upright, said Colin Hendrie, a professor of human and animal ethology at the University of Leeds in the U.K. and researcher on the new study. "There is a prediction that says childbirth is more dangerous for smaller women than larger women," Hendrie told Live Science. Read More http://ift.tt/1mQLDc1