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Maternal personality, evolution, and the sex ratio : do mothers control the sex of the infant? / Valerie J. Grant.
- Title
- Maternal personality, evolution, and the sex ratio : do mothers control the sex of the infant? / Valerie J. Grant.
- Author
- Grant, Valerie J., 1937-
- Publication
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.
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- Description
- vii, 222 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Grant presents evidence that the mother's personality - which is related to female testosterone levels - can influence which type of sperm fertilises the egg, and argues that the sex of an infant depends on which sex the mother is more suited to raise.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-213) and indexes.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Defining & measuring dominance -- Biological basis of dominance -- Evidence from biostatistics -- Physiology of sex determination -- Dominance in animals -- Dominance & the sex ratio in animals -- Sex ratio in humans -- Early experience & evolutionary advantage -- Sex preferences & sex selection.
- ISBN
- 0415158796 (hardbound)
- 041515880X (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^^97014825^//r98
- OCLC
- 36960977
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library