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If hunger doesn't kill you, it doesn't make you stronger

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Low crop yields in preindustrial Finland led to decreased fertility and survival during nineteenth-century famine.

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  1. Hayward, A. D., Rickard, I. J. & Lummaa, V. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1301817110 (2013).

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Mascarelli, A. If hunger doesn't kill you, it doesn't make you stronger. Nature (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2013.13503

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