Open AccessWhy is lifetime fertility higher in twinning women?
Author(s) -
Ian J. Rickard,
Alexandre Courtiol,
Virpi Lummaa
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
proceedings of the royal society b biological sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.342
H-Index - 253
eISSN - 1471-2954
pISSN - 0962-8452
DOI - 10.1098/rspb.2012.0191
Subject(s) - crystal twinning , fertility , demography , materials science , sociology , population , metallurgy , microstructure
In a recent paper published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B , Robson & Smith (RS) presented an analysis of a database comprising the life histories of more than 50 000 women born in the nineteenth century UT, USA. They addressed the question of whether a woman's likelihood of producing twins
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