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40: 417:, there is only one male for every group of 6-8 females. If the male fish dies, the strongest female changes its sex to become the male for the group. All of these wrasses are born female, and only become male in this situation. Other species, like clownfish, do this in reverse, where all start out as non-reproductive males, and the largest male becomes a female, with the second-largest male maturing to become reproductive. 388:, for example, females are hatched from eggs incubated between 27.7 to 30 °C (81.9 to 86.0 °F), whereas males are hatched from eggs 32.2 to 33.8 °C (90.0 to 92.8 °F). In this method, however, all eggs in a clutch (20–50) will be of the same sex. In fact, the natural sex ratio of this species is five females to one male. 356:: if the general population deviates from this equilibrium by favoring one sex, one can obtain higher reproductive success with less effort by producing more of the other. For species where the cost of successfully raising one offspring is roughly the same regardless of its sex, this translates to an approximately equal sex ratio. 376:
is usually skewed towards dominance of females. However, there are differences in adult sex ratios between families: in families in which females require multiple matings to keep producing eggs, sex ratios are less biased (close to 1); in families in which females can produce eggs continuously after
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males to females in a population, and is therefore derived from a subset of the individuals included when calculating the ASR. Although conceptually distinct, researchers have sometimes equated the ASR with the OSR, particularly in experimental studies of animals where the difference between the two
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and infanticide. Exposure to pesticides and other environmental contaminants may be a significant contributing factor as well. As of 2024, the global sex ratio at birth is estimated at 107 boys to 100 girls (1,000 boys per 934 girls). By old age, the sex ratio reverses, with 81 older men for every
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Traditionally, farmers have discovered that the most economically efficient community of animals will have a large number of females and a very small number of males. A herd of cows with a few bulls or a flock of hens with one rooster are the most economical sex ratios for domesticated livestock.
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It was found that the amount of fertilizing pollen can influence secondary sex ratio in dioecious plants. Increase in pollen amount leads to decrease in number of male plants in the progeny. This relationship was confirmed on four plant species from three families –
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species is clearly related to a strongly male-biased adult sex ratio. Those species with male care and polyandry invariably have adult sex ratios with a large surplus of males, which in some cases can reach as high as six males per female.
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rather than sex ratio, sex allocation denoting the allocation of energy to either sex. Common research themes are the effects of local mate and resource competition (often abbreviated LMC and LRC, respectively).
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Sex ratio theory is a field of academic study which seeks to understand the sex ratios observed in nature from an evolutionary perspective. It continues to be heavily influenced by the work of
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is of particular interest to anthropologists and demographers. In human societies, sex ratios at birth may be considerably skewed by factors such as the age of mother at birth and by
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When does selection favour the ability of an individual to alter its allocation to male versus female function, in response to particular environmental or life history situations?
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Davis DL, Gottlieb MB, Stampnitzky JR (April 1998). "Reduced ratio of male to female births in several industrial countries: a sentinel health indicator?".
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Doerr ED, Doerr VA (2006). "Comparative demography of treecreepers: evaluating hypotheses for the evolution and maintenance of cooperative breeding".
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Under what conditions are the various states of hermaphroditism or dioecy evolutionarily stable? When is a mixture of sexual types stable?
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Therefore parents genetically disposed to produce males tend to have more than average numbers of grandchildren born to them.
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Fisher's principle (1930) explains why in most species, the sex ratio is approximately 1:1. His argument was summarised by
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Pike TW, Petrie M (October 2005). "Maternal body condition and plasma hormones affect offspring sex ration in peafowl".
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Arnold KE, Griffith SC, Goldizen AW (2001). "Sex-biased hatching sequences in the cooperatively breeding noisy miner".
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Coney NS, Mackey WC (1998). "The Woman as Final Arbiter: A Case for the Facultative Character of the Human Sex Ratio".
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A newborn male then has better mating prospects than a newborn female, and therefore can expect to have more offspring.
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Ferguson MW, Joanen T (April 1982). "Temperature of egg incubation determines sex in Alligator mississippiensis".
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100 older women; across all ages, the global population is nearly balanced, with 101 males for every 100 females.
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The same reasoning holds if females are substituted for males throughout. Therefore 1:1 is the equilibrium ratio.
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Noske RA (1986). "Intersexual niche segregation among three bark-foraging birds of eucalypt forests".
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Therefore the genes for male-producing tendencies spread, and male births become more common.
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As the 1:1 sex ratio is approached, the advantage associated with producing males dies away.
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In most species, the sex ratio varies according to the age profile of the population.
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and sex-role reversal (where males care and females compete for mates) as found in
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These definitions can be somewhat subjective since they lack clear boundaries.
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Spending equal amounts of resources to produce offspring of either sex is an
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species, what is the equilibrium sex ratio maintained by natural selection?
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species as they kill males. Sex-ratio of adult populations of pelagic
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Male-biased adult sex ratios have also been shown to correlate with
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only one mating, sex ratios are strongly skewed towards females.
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number of males and females (accounting that the ratio has 3
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In birds, mothers can influence the sex of their chicks. In
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species, periodically mating organisms such as aphids, some
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Dioecious plants secondary sex ratio and amount of pollen
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Biological research mostly concerns itself with sex
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Index

Gender balance
Gender equality

significant figures
ratio
population
Fisher's principle
sexually
parthenogenic
eusocial
wasps
bees
ants
termites
human sex ratio
sex-selective abortion
operational sex ratio
Eric Charnov
dioecious
sequential hermaphrodite
simultaneous hermaphrodite
Fisher's principle
W. D. Hamilton
evolutionarily stable strategy
Macrotera portalis
evolutionarily stable strategy
Bacteria
Wolbachia
arthropod
copepods

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