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Disclaimer: I have no professional knowledge in this field. Everything I know about it, which is almost nothing, is either from reading cracked.com in the good old days or from witnessing my wife be pregnant and birth a baby.
That said, from my understanding, the issue is less the womb and more the pelvis.
This theory is called the, "obstetrical dilemma," and it's been mostly debunked.
That's what I get for sourcing my knowledge from Cracked, I suppose. Thank you for the update.
No problem. And, to be fair, this study is only 8 years old, so it's very possible Cracked was citing the prevailing scientific theory at the time.
Could be both too, but I'm also not a scientist and don't care enough to go sleuthing through the internet for real scientific theories or hypotheses on the (under)development of human babies compared to other mammals.
This theory has apparently been mostly debunked, so my disclaimer has been justified. I'm rarely an expert, so don't go by what I say! That said, I appreciate the follow-up.
edit: For the debunking, see the response to my other comment.