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Sex determination and the maternal dominance hypothesis

1 Nov 1996

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The maternal dominance hypothesis has been derived from work with humans which shows that women who are more dominant than other women are more likely to conceive sons. In both animals and humans dominance is a characteristic or personality trait, underpinned by testosterone and responsive to a range of environmental changes: physical, social and psychological. Studies of the sex ratio in the social sciences and...

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PMID: 8981113
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.humrep.a019117

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