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 Bones of Zora action ... plus some wry, wise observations on relationships. After 46 years, the de Camp imprimatur still guarantees a good time. Tom Easton, writing in "Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact", takes a different view, calling the book "less good than its predecessors, partly because it is too much of a reprise. Too often, the pages ask (and answer), "Whatever happened to so and so?" and the story suffers for its lack of original novelty." He cautions that "anyone who first visits Krishna through "Bones" is going to wonder what all the fuss is about," noting that "though the complications lend pace