Women Wobble But We Don't Fall Down: Why Pregnant Women Don't Tip Over

Three cheers for Katherine Whitcome, an anthropologist at Harvard University, who recently drew attention to an extraordinary innate ability women possess but men have taken for granted: We don't tip over when we are pregnant.

And many of us can manage to stay upright even while wearing heels.

Whitcome published her findings last week in the journal Nature.

I don't know what Whitcome's next research project is. But I wonder if she can explain why my feet grew half a shoe size during each of my two pregnancies?

Or is that the price we pay for standing on our own two feet?