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Comparative Nutrition in Pregnancy

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Maternal starvation reduces the viability of the offspring less in man than in other mammals. It is suggested that this is associated with the less exacting demands made on the mother by slower growing primate foetuses.

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  1. P. R. PAYNE & ERICA F. WHEELER

    Present address: Human Nutrition Department, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, W.C.1.

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  1. Human Nutrition Research Unit, National Institute for Medical Research, The Ridgeway, Mill Hill,

    P. R. PAYNE & ERICA F. WHEELER

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PAYNE, P., WHEELER, E. Comparative Nutrition in Pregnancy. Nature 215, 1134–1136 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/2151134a0

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