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Birth weight and natural selection

Human Heredity
|January 1, 1984
PubMed

Differential mortality as a function of birth weight was studied in newborns up to the 1st week of life in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh (India). It was found that both selection intensity and selective deaths were higher than in other studies. Furthermore, in the present study the values obtained were higher for female than for male newborns.

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