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. 1987 Jul;31(3):269–280. doi: 10.1017/s002572730004686x

Making a long story short: a note on men's height and mortality in England from the first through the nineteenth centuries.

S J Kunitz
PMCID: PMC1139741  PMID: 3306219

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