Price $18.50 Mendel C. Sheps, Jane A. Menken, ,Mathematical Models of Conception and Birth (1973) University of Chicago xxiii.

✍ Scribed by Leslie E. Blumenson

• Book ID: 104272103
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1974
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 94 KB
• Volume: 36
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1522-9602
• DOI: 10.1016/s0092-8240(74)80042-x

✦ Synopsis

I n 1909 Raymond Pearl* delineated the difference between the concepts of,fertility and fecundity in viviparous animals. "We would suggest that the term fecundity be used only to designate the innate potential reproductive capacity of the individual organism, as denoted by its ability to form and separate from the body mature germ cells . . . . On the other hand we would suggest that the term fertility be used to designate the total actual reproductive capacity of pairs of organisms, male and female, as expressed by their