[ RadSafe ] The human sex odds at birth after the atmospheric atomic bomb tests, after Chernobyl, and in the vicinity of nuclear facilities

[Doug Aitken]

Hmmmm: 
Confounders?

There are a lot of factors that have been shown to have "some" relationship
to sex birth ratios. There has been a long held belief that when a
population is under stress, it produces a greater percentage of females
(probably an evolutionary characteristic: males can fertilize multiple
females, while if you are short of females, the population, as a whole, can
be negatively impacted......).

As Mike says, a weak correlation does not prove anything......

Regards
Doug

Doug Aitken
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Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 3:48 PM
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Subject: [ RadSafe ] The human sex odds at birth after the atmospheric
atomic bomb tests, after Chernobyl, and in the vicinity of nuclear
facilities

http://www.springerlink.com/content/w822527526045772/

http://www.springerlink.com/content/w822527526045772/fulltext.pdf  free I
think

Popularized review

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-nuclear-affects-baby-gender.html
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