Examples of pelvis

• A woman’s pelvis is usually wider but shorter than a man’s. 

• From his studies of bones, he showed that they all had the same kind of pelvis and straight legs (a bit like the human pelvis and legs today). 

• The pelvis is useful in deciding if the bones belonged to a man or a woman. 

• It is at this point that the shoulders usually come to lie in an oblique orientation relative to the maternal pelvis.

• Thermoplastic cradles must tie up to patient bony pelvis anatomy, yet lateral tattoos are tied in with alignment marks drawn on the cradles.

• As expected perhaps, these differences are larger for some sites (head and neck, thorax), than for others (breast, pelvis).

• The human true pelvis is adapted to our bipedal posture.

• The fossil record also reveals that anatomical changes that broadened and shortened the pelvis and reshaped the birth canal began occurring well before this exodus.