Assuming that natural selection shapes all animal and plant traits is a false impression. Natural selection is a mindless process.
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The sexual selection of larger males may be driven by an abundance – not a scarcity – of females.
A little bit of statistics can explain the great mystery of why only girls are being born in Miejsce Odrzanskie.
China’s surplus of unmarriageable men poses a stark dilemma for Xi and other leaders as they set the country’s economic course for the next five years.
Involuntary bachelors, who fail to add fruit to their family tree are often referred to as “bare branches”. And the Chinese state has recently started to worry about them.
New research explains why habitat loss means male willow warblers now outnumber females – and that’s bad news for the species.
The risk of harm in sex selection stems from the fact that parents don’t desire any child, they want a child of a particular sex, who is to remain within the limits of binary gender roles.
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Research Associate, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
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Professor of Biodiversity at The Milner Centre for Evolution, University of Bath
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Senior Lecturer in Statistics, University of Glasgow
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Professor of Applied Ecology, University of East Anglia
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Senior Researcher in Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia
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Assistant Professor of Psychology, NYU Shanghai
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Professor of Political Science, Drake University
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Professor in Genetics, University of Pretoria
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Emeritus Professor, University of Pretoria
