Birth Weight and Natural Selection
- 1 January 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by S. Karger AG in Human Heredity
- Vol. 34 (3) , 170-173
- https://doi.org/10.1159/000153456
Abstract
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 selectiKeywords
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