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THE population explosion throughout the world is an important problem for governments and a topic much debated among demographers and economists. Any hint about the natural factors which might exercise control over population growth would seem to be worthy of further investigation by experts. The ranges of fertility in different communities vary and the variation would seem to be heritable. Mourant1 states that “blood group studies are probably at present more valuable as a source of genetical information about human populations than studies of all other factors combined, and blood groups will surely remain for many years more important than any other class of factors”.
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Mourant, A. E., Symp. Soc. for the Study of Human Biology, 4, 13 (1961).
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GRIEVE, J., SOMMERVILLE, T., CAMERON, C. et al. Population Growth and Blood Groups. Nature 215, 778 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/215778a0
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