You are what your mother eats: evidence for maternal preconception diet influencing foetal sex in humans.
Facultative adjustment of sex ratios by mothers occurs in some animals, and has been linked to resource availability. In mammals, the search for consistent patterns is complicated by variations in mating systems, social hierarchies and litter sizes. Humans have low fecundity, high maternal investmen...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2008
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