Ekaterina Stansfield, PhD
Stansfield, E., Egner, C., Mitteroecker, P., & Kainz, H. (2026). Did energy costs of walking limit the evolution of a larger human birth canal? Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences, 293(2064). https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2025.2895
Stansfield, E., Phan, K., Fischer, B., Delancey, J. O., & Umek, W. (2025). Pelvic shape predisposes for pelvic organ prolapse: a geometric morphometry study. Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology, 66(5), 659-666. https://doi.org/10.1002/uog.70101
Grunstra, N. D. S., Betti, L., Fischer, B., Haeusler, M., Pavlicev, M., Stansfield, E., Trevathan, W., Webb, N. M., Wells, J. C. K., Rosenberg, K. R., & Mitteroecker, P. (2023). There is an obstetrical dilemma: Misconceptions about the evolution of human childbirth and pelvic form. American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 181(4), 535-544. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24802
Stansfield, E., Mitteroecker, P., Umek, W., & Fischer, B. (2023). The variation in shape and thickness of the pelvic floor musculature in males and females: a geometric-morphometric analysis. International Urogynecology Journal, 34(2), 453-461. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00192-022-05311-5
Mitteroecker, P., Grunstra, N. D. S., Stansfield, E., Waltenberger, L., & Fischer, B. (2022). The roles of natural selection and drift in the evolution of modern human pelvic form. American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 177, 126-127.
Stansfield, E., Fischer, B., Grunstra, N., Villa Pouca, M., & Mitteroecker, P. (2021). The evolution of pelvic canal shape and rotational birth in humans. BMC Biology, 19(1), Artikel 224. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-021-01150-w
Stansfield, E., Kumar, K., Mitteroecker, P., & Grunstra, N. (2021). Biomechanical trade-offs in the pelvic floor constrain the evolution of the human birth canal. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 118(16), Artikel e2022159118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2022159118
Stansfield, E., Mitteroecker, P., Vasilyev, S. Y., Butaric, L. N., & Vasilyev, S. (2021). Respiratory adaptation to climate in modern humans and Upper Palaeolithic individuals from Sungir and Mladeč. Scientific Reports, 11(1), Artikel 7997. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-86830-x
Grunstra, N. D. S., Kumar, K., Mitteroecker, P., & Stansfield, E. (2021). Trade-offs in the pelvic floor constrain human pelvic evolution: A finite element approach. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 174, 42-42.
Mitteroecker, P., & Stansfield, E. (2021). A model of developmental canalization, applied to human cranial form. PLoS Computational Biology, 17(2), Artikel e1008381. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008381
Mitteroecker, P., Grunstra, N. D. S., Stansfield, E., Waltenberger, L., & Fischer, B. (2021). Did population differences in human pelvic form evolve by drift or selection? Bulletins et Memoires de la Societe d'Anthropologie de Paris, 33(1), 11-26. https://doi.org/10.4000/BMSAP.7460
Stansfield, E., Jennifer, P., & O'Higgins, P. (2018). A sensitivity study of human mandibular biting simulations using finite element analysis. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 22, 420-432. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2018.04.026
Stansfield, E., Evteev, A., & O'Higgins, P. (2018). Can diet be inferred from the biomechanical response to simulated biting in modern and pre-historic human mandibles? Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 22, 433-443. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2018.07.019
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