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Birth month predicted reproductive fitness in pre-modern Canadian women.
2003 OCT 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A new study suggests that the month of their birth greatly influenced the reproductive success and fitness of pre-modern Canadian women.
Reproductive fitness refers to an organism's ability to pass its genes on through at least two generations (i.e., to its children and through its children to its grandchildren). Indeed, it is to reproductive fitness that the term "survival of the fittest" originally referred.
Writing in Proceedings of the Royal Society London, B (Biological Sciences), Dr. Virpi Lummaa and Dr. M. Tremblay, University of Cambridge, noted that the health effects of conditions during early development are unknown.
In their study, they "[showed] that in 19th century ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Birth month predicted reproductive fitness in pre-modern Canadian...