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Progeny number for married aristocratic women from different birth cohorts as a function of age at death (Westendorp & Kirkwood, 1998). When only postmenopausal women (that is, aged 60 years and over) were included in the analysis, the decrease in number of progeny with age at death was statistically significant for both the period before 1700 and the period after 1700.
