Article
Gene-culture coevolution and sex ratios: the effects of infanticide, sex-selective abortion, sex selection, and sex-biased parental investment on the evolution of sex ratios.
Theoretical population biology - 1 Dec 1994
Kumm J, Laland K N, Feldman M W
Abstract excerpt
The evolutionary consequences of culturally transmitted practices that cause differential mortality between the sexes, thereby distorting the sex ratio (e.g., female infanticide and sex-selective abortion), are explored using dynamic models of gene-culture coevolution. We investigate how a prefer...
Topics
- Abortion, Induced
- Alleles
- Biological Evolution
- Culture
- Developing Countries
- Female
- Genetics, Population
- Genotype
- Humans
- Infanticide
- Male
- Models, Genetic
- Phenotype
- Pregnancy
- Prejudice
- Selection, Genetic
- Sex Preselection
- Sex Ratio