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Podgorski blizanci / Podgora's twins

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To clarify, prove or disprove a popular belief about high incidence of twin births in Podgora

Work completed - see article in Cambridge Journal of Biosciance -- link

High incidence of twin births in Podgora has attracted a fair amount of media attention. We will try to quantify it by looking at number of births per year for the last 300-400 years, parental age, incidence of both maternal and paternal twin incidence, and identify other possible factors, such as family behaviour. We will compare twining rates for Podgora with those of neighboring villages and some European countries.

In the past