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Twinning in humans: maternal heterogeneity in reproduction and survival

While humans usually give birth to singletons, dizygotic twinning occurs at low rates in all populations worldwide. We evaluate two hypotheses that have differing expectations about the effects of bearing twins on maternal lifetime reproduction and survival. The maternal depletion hypothesis argues...

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Main Authors: Robson, Shannen L., Smith, Ken R.
Format: Artigo
Sprog:Inglês
Udgivet: The Royal Society 2011
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Online adgang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3203505/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21561975
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2011.0573
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