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The infant mortality evolution in the present century has been analyzed in a rural Mediterranean population (La Alpujarra, SE Spain). The “conventional infant mortality rate” shows a decrease from 184.82, in 1900–1904, to 25.16, in 1975–1978. The sexual proportion for all period studied indicates a male supermortality about 1.13. The biometric analysis reveals an excess of exogenous mortality at the first half of the century, attributed to digestive problems, as has been found in other Mediterranean populations. The seasonal distribution presents an evolutionary change from a maximum in estival months to a maximum in winter ones.
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Luna, F., Moral, P. Incidence of ecological factors on the evolution of infant mortality in a Mediterranean population (La Alpujarra, SE Spain). Int. J. Anthropol. 5, 63–69 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02442373
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