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How Studies Of Human Sex Ratios At Birth May Lead To The Understanding Of Several Forms Of Pathology, William H. James
How Studies Of Human Sex Ratios At Birth May Lead To The Understanding Of Several Forms Of Pathology, William H. James
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This paper deals with the problem of the causes of the variation of sex ratio (proportion male) at birth. This problem is common to a number of areas in biology and medicine e.g. obstetrics, neurology/psychiatry, parasitology, virology, oncology and teratology. It is established that there are significantly biased, but unexplained, sex ratios in each of these fields. Yet workers in them (with the possible exception of virology) have regarded the problem as a minor loose end, irrelevant to the field’s major problems. However, as far as I know, no-one has previously noted that unexplained biased sex ratios occur, and thus …