Hip bone muscles. Monotremes and marsupials also possess a fourth pair of bones, the prepubes or "marsupial bones", which extend forward from the pubes, and help to support the abdominal muscles and, in marsupials, the pouch. In placental mammals, the pelvis as a whole is generally wider in females than in males, to allow for the birth of the young. The pelvic bones of cetaceans were formerly considered to be vestigial, but they are now known to play a role in sexual selection. Hip bone The hip bone (os coxa, innominate bone, pelvic bone or coxal bone) is a large flat bone,
The Englishman of the Bones (novel) The Englishman of the Bones (novel) The Englishman of the Bones (Spanish:El inglés de los güesos) is a 1924 Argentine novel by Benito Lynch. It is part of the Gaucho literature movement. A major theme of the novel is the cultural exchanges between the British and the Argentine characters. In 1940 it was adapted into a film of the same title directed by Carlos Hugo Christensen. A young English expert on fossils meets and has a relationship with a gaucho woman while he is investigating the remains of indigenous people in Argentina. When he leaves, she is overcome with despair