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Ìyá as a status and a philosophical category, the world's highest twinning rate and what the Yoruba built on it, what infertility actually costs a woman, àbíkú and the medical evidence behind it, and the ìyá abiye who delivered the children.

What traditional birth attendants do and what the outcome evidence shows, the real demographic explanation for the Yoruba twinning rate and what it is not, infant care practice, and an honest division between what helps, what is neutral and what kills.

An examination of female ritual, medical, and judicial offices in Yoruba tradition, focusing on the Iyanifa dispute, palace priesthoods, and botanical health systems.