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Genomic Evidence for Males of Exceptional Reproductive Output (ERO) in Apes and Humans

2025-06-26

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It is widely suspected that a small percentage of males have exceptional reproductive output (ERO) but progeny numbers of males are rarely measurable, even in humans. If we define the variance ratio of reproductive-output in males and females as α’ = V M / V F , the ERO hypothesis would predict α’ >>1. Since autosomal, X, and Y chromosomes are found in males 1/2, 1/3, and 100% of the time, their DNA diversitie...

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Literature Corpus work: 802eabb4-6439-5c18-9e4a-f89c110554d3
DOI: 10.1101/2025.06.20.660753

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