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Article: Adaptive sex ratio variation in pre-industrial human (Homo sapiens) populations?
Title | Adaptive sex ratio variation in pre-industrial human (Homo sapiens) populations? |
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Keywords | Sex allocation Operational sex ratio Birth rate Humans Secondary sex ratio |
Issue Date | 1998 |
Citation | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 1998, v. 265, n. 1396, p. 563-568 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Sex allocation theory predicts that in a population with a biased operational sex ratio (OSR), parents will increase their fitness by adjusting the sex ratio of their progeny towards the rarer sex, until OSR has reached a level where the overproduction of either sex no longer increases a parent's probability of having grandchildren. Furthermore, in a monogamous mating system, a biased OSR is expected to lead to lowered mean fecundity among individuals of the more abundant sex. We studied the influence of OSR on the sex ratio of newborns and on the population birth rate using an extensive data set (n = 14,420 births) from pre-industrial (1775-1850) Finland. The overall effect of current OSR on sex ratio at birth was significant, and in the majority of the 21 parishes included in this study, more sons were produced when males were rarer than females. This suggests that humans adjusted the sex ratio of their offspring in response to the local OSR to maximize the reproductive success of their progeny. Birth rate and, presumably also population growth rate increased when the sex ratio (males:females) among reproductive age classes approached equality. However, the strength of these patterns varied across the parishes, suggesting that factors other than OSR (e.g. socioeconomic or environmental factors) may also have influenced the sex ratio at birth and the birth rate. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/292176 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 3.8 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.692 |
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dc.contributor.author | Lummaa, V. | - |
dc.contributor.author | Merila, J. | - |
dc.contributor.author | Kause, A. | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-11-17T14:55:55Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2020-11-17T14:55:55Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 1998 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 1998, v. 265, n. 1396, p. 563-568 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0962-8452 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/292176 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Sex allocation theory predicts that in a population with a biased operational sex ratio (OSR), parents will increase their fitness by adjusting the sex ratio of their progeny towards the rarer sex, until OSR has reached a level where the overproduction of either sex no longer increases a parent's probability of having grandchildren. Furthermore, in a monogamous mating system, a biased OSR is expected to lead to lowered mean fecundity among individuals of the more abundant sex. We studied the influence of OSR on the sex ratio of newborns and on the population birth rate using an extensive data set (n = 14,420 births) from pre-industrial (1775-1850) Finland. The overall effect of current OSR on sex ratio at birth was significant, and in the majority of the 21 parishes included in this study, more sons were produced when males were rarer than females. This suggests that humans adjusted the sex ratio of their offspring in response to the local OSR to maximize the reproductive success of their progeny. Birth rate and, presumably also population growth rate increased when the sex ratio (males:females) among reproductive age classes approached equality. However, the strength of these patterns varied across the parishes, suggesting that factors other than OSR (e.g. socioeconomic or environmental factors) may also have influenced the sex ratio at birth and the birth rate. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | - |
dc.subject | Sex allocation | - |
dc.subject | Operational sex ratio | - |
dc.subject | Birth rate | - |
dc.subject | Humans | - |
dc.subject | Secondary sex ratio | - |
dc.title | Adaptive sex ratio variation in pre-industrial human (Homo sapiens) populations? | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_OA_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1098/rspb.1998.0331 | - |
dc.identifier.pmid | 9881467 | - |
dc.identifier.pmcid | PMC1689011 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-0032492733 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 265 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 1396 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 563 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 568 | - |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1471-2970 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000073070000003 | - |