Broken pelvis, broken arms, people getting knocked out cold.
In the 1950s, rock and roll came to America, with Elvis Presley jiggling his pelvis in drainpipe trousers and James Dean looking moody in blue jeans.
In more than 75% of female cases it occurs without symptoms, but, if left untreated, it may cause inflammation of the pelvis, spontaneous abortion and infertility.In this section Rent asunder In their back yard Cows in trust The invisible worm Don't let it happen again Not over yet Manhood for the chop Gary Bauer and the virtue deficit ReprintsIn most of America, syphilis is now rare.
Palaeoanthropologists are nevertheless excited because some of its features, particularly the shape of its pelvis (which would have made upright walking more efficient) and the size of its teeth (which were smaller than those of its ancestors), have a lot in common with members of Homo.
Venezuelans have never been told the details of the "baseball-sized tumour" extracted from his pelvis last year; none of his doctors has spoken to the media.
Parts of a skull and vertebral column, plus fragments of the creature's legs and pelvis, suggest that it measured some 15 metres long.For palaeontologists, however, that is not the most interesting thing about the new specimen.
If Ormus shares characteristics with Elvis (that pelvis), Bob Dylan (a legendary near-fatal accident) and John Lennon (he dies at the hands of a crazed fan outside his New York apartment), Vina has as much in common with Diana, Princess of Wales as with Tina Turner or Madonna.
The sediba fossils, by contrast, have some of the most complete features in the early human record.The new studies centre on the most telling bits of anatomy in the story of human evolution: the brain, pelvis, hands and feet.
Along with an unborn fetus, the Chaohusaurus contained the skeleton of another offspring, half-emerged from the maternal pelvis.
It therefore sheds light on a longstanding debate: whether it was bipedalism or giving birth to babies with large heads that drove changes in the shape of the human pelvis.
