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Pink KE, Fischer B, Huffman MA, Miyabe-Nishiwaki T, Suda-Hashimoto N, Kaneko A et al. No birth-associated maternal mortality in Japanese macaques ( Macaca fuscata ) despite giving birth to large-headed neonates. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2024 Oct 15;121(42):e2316189121. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2316189121

Mitteroecker P, Fischer B. Evolution of the human birth canal. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. 2024 Mar;230(3):S841-S855. Epub 2023 Jul 18. doi: 10.1016/j.ajog.2022.09.010



Fischer B. Pelvic inlet area is associated with birth mode. Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica. 2023 Jan;102(1):59-66. Epub 2022 Nov 1. doi: 10.1111/aogs.14478

Simon S, Fischer B, Rinner A, Hummer A, Frank BJH, Mitterer JA et al. Body height estimation from automated length measurements on standing long leg radiographs using artificial intelligence. Scientific Reports. 2023;13(1):8504. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-34670-2





Bravo Morante G, Bookstein F, Fischer B, Schäfer K, Aguilera IA, Botella López M. Correlation of the human pubic symphysis surface with age-at-death: a novel quantitative method based on a bandpass filter. International Journal of Legal Medicine. 2021 Sept;135(5):1935-1944. doi: 10.1007/s00414-021-02555-6


Bravo Morante G, Fischer B, Botella López MC, Bastir M. The outline of the pubic symphyseal surface is sexually dimorphic and changes with age in humans. Journal of Anthropological Sciences. 2021;99:83-95. Epub 2021 Jun 4. doi: 10.4436/JASS.99003


Fischer B, Fleck M, Simon U. Am Puls Biologie, Bände 1-4. 1 ed. Wien: Österreichischer Bundesverlag Schulbuch GmbH (ÖBV), 2020.






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The evolution of human birth

Barbara Fischer (Speaker)

28 Nov 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Birth and the evolution of human anatomy

Barbara Fischer (Speaker)

26 Nov 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Evolution of the human pelvis and childbirth

Barbara Fischer (Speaker)

16 Oct 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Die Hüfte aus anthropologischer Sicht

Barbara Fischer (Speaker)

10 Oct 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The evolution of difficult birth in humans

Barbara Fischer (Speaker)

19 Aug 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Modelling the evolution of sensitive windows in animal development

Barbara Fischer (Speaker)

20 Jun 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Pelvic anatomy, pelvis evolution, obstetrics & orthopedics

Barbara Fischer (Speaker)

4 Oct 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Pelvic anatomy and birth mode

Barbara Fischer (Speaker)

8 Sept 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Das weibliche Becken aus anthropologischer Sicht

Barbara Fischer (Speaker)

21 Apr 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Fachlich-fachdidaktisch-methodisch up-to-date zum Thema Evolution des modernen Menschen

Barbara Fischer (Speaker)

23 Nov 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


How Mendel became a scientist

Barbara Fischer (Speaker)

13 Oct 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Sex differences in the pelvis did not evolve de novo in modern humans

Barbara Fischer (Speaker)

13 Jun 202214 Jun 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Warum ist die Geburt beim Menschen so schwierig?

Barbara Fischer (Speaker)

9 May 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Die Evolution des modernen Menschen: bestehende und neue Forschungsergebnisse.

Barbara Fischer (Speaker)

19 Nov 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Mendel, Doppler and Unger: Viennese Influences on Mendel's Work

Barbara Fischer (Speaker)

3 Nov 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Why is human childbirth so difficult? Obstetrics and the evolution of labor

Barbara Fischer (Speaker)

11 Jun 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Sex differences in the pelvis did not evolve de novo in modern humans

Barbara Fischer (Speaker)

19 Mar 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The evolution of difficult birth in humans

Barbara Fischer (Speaker)

22 Jan 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


10th Annual ESHE Meeting

Barbara Fischer (Speaker)

24 Sept 202025 Sept 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Die Evolution des menschlichen Beckens und die Bedeutung für die Geburt

Barbara Fischer (Speaker)

5 Dec 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Ursachen hoher Sectioraten – Gründe aus evolutionärer und epidemiologischer Sicht

Barbara Fischer (Speaker)

10 Sept 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


GM Austria 2019

Barbara Fischer (Speaker)

27 Mar 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Evolutionary constraints and childbirth in humans

Barbara Fischer (Speaker)

24 Jan 2014

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Science Slam Vienna: Kindsköpfe und Evolutionärer Pfusch

Barbara Fischer (Speaker)

9 Dec 2013

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Too many Red Queens

Barbara Fischer (Speaker)

30 Aug 2013

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Allometry and Childbirth in Humans

Barbara Fischer (Speaker)

2010 → …

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Department of Evolutionary Biology

Djerassiplatz 1 (UBB)
1030 Wien
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