Pair-bond and survival in historical population: Marriage, widowhood, and social class.

iScience · 2026 · PMC13156997 · PMID 42111223

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This much restricted sample suggests that the survival of those men who never married during their lifetime (NN = 216) had 5% lower survival than married men, but this result was only marginally statistically significant (H±SE: 0.95 ± 0.03, p = 0.07).

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