Why does human birth always have so many complications? It seems as though it’s equally likely to hear about a complicated birth as it is to hear about a normal birth

Question

It seems like so often, and really more often than not, I hear about births having so many things go wrong with them. Why does it seem so hard for humans to hear have a normal birth with a healthy baby?

In: Biology

Answer 1

Because humans have incredibly large heads because of our large brains. Some evolutionary biologists even believe that the width of the birth canal is the main limiting factor to our collective intelligence. Basically, if our brains got any bigger, women would rarely survive childbirth at all.