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Environment
fromMail Online
23 hours ago

Climate change could determine the sex of your child, study reveals

Higher temperatures above 20°C are associated with more female births, with mechanisms varying by region: prenatal mortality from maternal heat stress in sub-Saharan Africa and later effects in India.
Science
fromwww.npr.org
7 months ago

Have all girls or all boys? Study suggests the odds aren't 50/50

Families may have a distinct tendency toward having either boys or girls during childbirth.
fromMail Online
7 months ago

Boy or girl? Chance of having a son or daughter is NOT 50/50

The human sex ratio has long been of interest to biologists, statisticians, demographers, sociologists, and economists. Here, we showed that within each sibship size, sex at birth did not conform with a simple binomial distribution and identified a significant intramother correlation in offspring sex.
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