Volume 31 - Article 39 | Pages 1199–1228  

Mortality selection in the first three months of life and survival in the following thirty-three months in rural Veneto (North-East Italy) from 1816 to 1835

By Leonardo Piccione, Gianpiero Dalla Zuanna, Alessandra Minello

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