Mag. Dr. Barbara Fischer, Privatdoz.
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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

Grunstra NDS, Betti L, Fischer B, Haeusler M, Pavlicev M, Stansfield E et al. There is an obstetrical dilemma: Misconceptions about the evolution of human childbirth and pelvic form. American Journal of Biological Anthropology. 2023 Aug;181(4):535-544. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.24802

Stansfield E, Mitteroecker P, Umek W, Fischer B. The variation in shape and thickness of the pelvic floor musculature in males and females: a geometric-morphometric analysis. International Urogynecology Journal. 2023 Feb;34(2):453-461. Epub 2022 Aug 5. doi: 10.1007/s00192-022-05311-5

Starrach T, Schmidhuber L, Elger L, Franz M, Buechel J, Hübener C et al. Pelvic inlet area is associated with birth mode. Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica. 2023 Jan;102(1):59-66. 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


Martina C, Krenn L, Krupicka L, Yamada H, Hood-Nowotny RC, Lahuatte PF et al. Evaluating Volatile Plant Compounds of Psidium galapageium (Myrtales: Myrtaceae) as Repellents against Invasive Parasitic Diptera in the Galapagos Islands. Journal of Medical Entomology. 2022 Jan;59(1):89-98. doi: 10.1093/jme/tjab183

Stansfield E, Fischer B, Grunstra N, Villa Pouca M, Mitteroecker P. The evolution of pelvic canal shape and rotational birth in humans. BMC Biology. 2021 Oct 11;19(1):224. doi: 10.1186/s12915-021-01150-w


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

Mitteroecker P, Grunstra NDS, Stansfield E, Waltenberger L, Fischer B. Did population differences in human pelvic form evolve by drift or selection? Bulletins et Memoires de la Societe d'Anthropologie de Paris. 2021;33(1):11-26. doi: 10.4000/BMSAP.7460

Fischer B, Grunstra NDS, Zaffarini E, Mitteroecker P. Sex differences in the pelvis did not evolve de novo in modern humans. A facilitated variation hypothesis. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2021;5(5):625–630 . doi: 10.1038/s41559-021-01425-z

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

Umek W, Fischer B. We Should Abandon "Race" as a Biological Category in Biomedical Research. Female Pelvic Medicine & Reconstructive Surgery. 2020 Dec 1;26(12):719-720. doi: 10.1097/SPV.0000000000000979

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

Grunstra NDS, Zachos FE, Herdina AN, Fischer B, Pavlicev M, Mitteroecker P. Humans as inverted bats: A comparative approach to the obstetric conundrum. American Journal of Human Biology. 2019 Mar;31(2):e23227. doi: 10.1002/ajhb.23227

Fischer B. Die Evolution des menschlichen Beckens und die Bedeutung für die Geburt. Speculum: Geburtshilfe - Frauen-Heilkunde - Strahlen-Heilkunde Forschung - Konsequenzen. 2018 Mar;36(2):10-13.

Fischer B, Mitteroecker P. Allometry and Sexual Dimorphism in the Human Pelvis. Anatomical Record. 2017 Apr 1;300(4):698-705. doi: 10.1002/ar.23549

Mitteroecker P, Huttegger SM, Fischer B, Pavlicev M. Reply to Grossman: The role of natural selection for the increase of Caesarean section rates. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). 2017 Feb 21;114(8):E1305. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1621176114

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The evolution of human birth

Fischer, B. (Speaker)

28 Nov 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Birth and the evolution of human anatomy

Fischer, B. (Speaker)

26 Nov 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Evolution of the human pelvis and childbirth

Fischer, B. (Speaker)

16 Oct 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Die Hüfte aus anthropologischer Sicht

Fischer, B. (Speaker)

10 Oct 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The evolution of difficult birth in humans

Fischer, B. (Speaker)

19 Aug 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Modelling the evolution of sensitive windows in animal development

Fischer, B. (Speaker)

20 Jun 2024

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Pelvic anatomy, pelvis evolution, obstetrics & orthopedics

Fischer, B. (Speaker)

4 Oct 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Pelvic anatomy and birth mode

Fischer, B. (Speaker)

8 Sept 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Das weibliche Becken aus anthropologischer Sicht

Fischer, B. (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

Fischer, B. (Speaker)

23 Nov 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


How Mendel became a scientist

Fischer, B. (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

Fischer, B. (Speaker)

13 Jun 202214 Jun 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Warum ist die Geburt beim Menschen so schwierig?

Fischer, B. (Speaker)

9 May 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


Die Evolution des modernen Menschen: bestehende und neue Forschungsergebnisse.

Fischer, B. (Speaker)

19 Nov 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


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

Fischer, B. (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

Fischer, B. (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

Fischer, B. (Speaker)

19 Mar 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The evolution of difficult birth in humans

Fischer, B. (Speaker)

22 Jan 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


10th Annual ESHE Meeting

Fischer, B. (Speaker)

24 Sept 202025 Sept 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


The evolution of difficult birth in humans

Fischer, B. (Speaker)

30 Jun 2020

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Die Evolution des menschlichen Beckens und die Bedeutung für die Geburt

Fischer, B. (Speaker)

5 Dec 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Ursachen hoher Sectioraten – Gründe aus evolutionärer und epidemiologischer Sicht

Fischer, B. (Speaker)

10 Sept 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


GM Austria 2019

Fischer, B. (Speaker)

27 Mar 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Evolutionary constraints and childbirth in humans

Fischer, B. (Speaker)

24 Jan 2014

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Science Slam Vienna: Kindsköpfe und Evolutionärer Pfusch

Fischer, B. (Speaker)

9 Dec 2013

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Too many Red Queens

Fischer, B. (Speaker)

30 Aug 2013

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Allometry and Childbirth in Humans

Fischer, B. (Speaker)

2010 → …

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionOther


Department of Evolutionary Biology

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