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Greater loss of female embryos during human pregnancy: A novel mechanism
2018-10-02
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<h4>Summary</h4> Given an equal sex ratio at conception, we can only explain the excess of human males at birth by greater loss of females during pregnancy. I propose that the bias against females during human development is the result of a greater degree of genetic and metabolic “differentness” between female embryos and maternal tissues than for similarly aged males, and that successful implantation and placent...
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- ab13baf7-12f5-5283-98cc-17865d995e29
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- 10.1101/418186