Restricted accessMoreSectionsView Full TextView PDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail Cite this article Robson Shannen L. and Smith Ken R. 2012Parity progression ratios confirm higher lifetime fertility in women who bear twinsProc. R. Soc. B.2792512–2514http://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2012.0436SectionRestricted accessComments and invited repliesParity progression ratios confirm higher lifetime fertility in women who bear twins Shannen L. Robson Shannen L. Robson Department of Anthropology, Natural History Museum of Utah, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA [email protected] Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author and Ken R. Smith Ken R. Smith Department of Family and Consumer Studies, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author Shannen L. Robson Shannen L. Robson Department of Anthropology, Natural History Museum of Utah, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA [email protected] Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author and Ken R. Smith Ken R. Smith Department of Family and Consumer Studies, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author Published:11 April 2012https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2012.0436References1Rickard I., Coutiol A.& Lummaa V.. 2012Why is lifetime fertility higher in twinning women?Proc. R. Soc. B 279, 2510–2511.doi:10.1098/rspb.2012.0191 (doi:10.1098/rspb.2012.0191). Link, ISI, Google Scholar2Robson S. L.& Smith K. R.. 2011Twinning in humans: maternal heterogeneity in reproduction and survival. Proc. R. Soc. B 278, 3755–3761.doi:10.1098/rspb.2011.0573 (doi:10.1098/rspb.2011.0573). Link, ISI, Google Scholar3Baird J., Osmond C., Bowes I.& Phillips D. I. W.. 1998Mortality from birth to adult life: a longitudinal study of twins. Early Hum. Dev. 53, 73–79.doi:10.1016/S0378-3782(98)00044-9 (doi:10.1016/S0378-3782(98)00044-9). Crossref, PubMed, ISI, Google Scholar4Wyshak G.. 1975Twinning rates among women at the end of their reproductive span and their relation to age at menopause. Am. J. Epidemiol. 102, 170–178. Crossref, PubMed, ISI, Google Scholar Previous ArticleNext Article VIEW FULL TEXT DOWNLOAD PDF FiguresRelatedReferencesDetailsCited by Moyle H (2020) Australia’s Fertility Transition: A study of 19th-century Tasmania Mattison S, Beheim B, Chak B and Buston P (2016) Offspring sex preferences among patrilineal and matrilineal Mosuo in Southwest China revealed by differences in parity progression, Royal Society Open Science, 3:9, Online publication date: 1-Sep-2016. Hanson H, Smith K and Zimmer Z (2015) Reproductive History and Later-Life Comorbidity Trajectories: A Medicare-Linked Cohort Study From the Utah Population Database, Demography, 10.1007/s13524-015-0439-5, 52:6, (2021-2049), Online publication date: 1-Dec-2015. This Issue07 July 2012Volume 279Issue 1738 Article InformationDOI:https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2012.0436Published by:Royal SocietyOnline ISSN:1471-2954History: Manuscript received24/02/2012Manuscript accepted22/03/2012Published online11/04/2012Published in print07/07/2012 License:This journal is © 2012 The Royal Society Citations and impact Subjectsecologyevolutionhealth and disease and epidemiology Large datasets are available through Proceedings B's partnership with Dryad