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PRIOR AND PROXIMATE CAUSES OF INFANT SURVIVAL IN GHANA, WITH SPECIAL ATTENTION TO POLYGYNY. A Comment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 1998

WILLIAM H. JAMES
Affiliation:
The Galton Laboratory, University College London, Wolfson House, 4 Stephenson Way, London NW1 2HE

Abstract

Amankwaa (1996) gives data on infant mortality in monogamous and polygynous families. However he does not categorise his data by sex. This is important because one might expect infant mortality to vary by sex; moreover the offspring sex ratios of polygynous and monogamous women reportedly differ.

Type
DEBATE
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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