Anna Blackburn Wittman

Graduate Student

Department of Anthropology

Washington University

email: agblackb@artsci.wustl.edu

Research Interests

Determining the relationship between pelvic morphology and locomotor efficiency in humans and other hominins.

Publications

Wittman, A.B., Wall, L.L. (2007) The evolutionary origins of obstructed labor: bipedalism, encephalization, and the human obstetric dilemma. Obstetrical & Gynecological Survey. 62(11):739-748.

Conference Presentations

Blackburn Wittman A., Pontzer, H. (2008) The effect of pelvic dimorphism on locomotor cost: are women less efficient than men? American Association of Physical Anthropologists.