Natural selection and birthweight
- 1 January 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Annals of Human Biology
- Vol. 5 (5) , 487-489
- https://doi.org/10.1080/03014467800003141
Abstract
Mean birthweight [in humans], even before induced births became commonplace, is slightly lower than the birthweight at which perinatal mortality is lowest. This finding, once hard to explain by natural selection, is exactly in line with predictions from natural selection theory.Keywords
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