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The fitness of twin mothers: evidence from rural Gambia

2001-05-01

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Abstract We used a longitudinal database from a natural fertility population in rural Gambia to compare the overall fertility of mothers who had given birth to twins at some point in their reproductive history and mothers who had only ever given birth to singletons. We found that twin mothers had shorter birth intervals, higher age-specific fertility and more surviving children than singleton mothers. This suggest...

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Literature Corpus work: 1aaa26db-0f22-5b02-a815-6767157749d1
DOI: 10.1046/j.1420-9101.2001.00287.x

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