A Trivers-Willard Effect in Contemporary Humans: Male-Biased Sex Ratios among Billionaires

Elissa Z. Cameron; Fredrik Dalerum

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0004195

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A Trivers-Willard Effect in Contemporary Humans: Male-Biased Sex Ratios among Billionaires

Elissa Z. Cameron ,

* E-mail: ezcameron@zoology.up.ac.za

Affiliation Mammal Research Institute, Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
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Fredrik Dalerum

Affiliation Mammal Research Institute, Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
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A Trivers-Willard Effect in Contemporary Humans: Male-Biased Sex Ratios among Billionaires

Elissa Z. Cameron,
Fredrik Dalerum

Published: January 14, 2009
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0004195

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New hypothesis

Posted by JamboRambo on 20 Dec 2012 at 05:16 GMT

Hello, I am new here and found this article off of Reddit. But, in reading this article, I couldn't help but to think of a new hypothesis with these findings. Perhaps, it is the dominate sex in the relationship may favor the sex of their offspring. In this instance, the billionaires being the alpha sex of the two, may trigger certain genetic switches to their significant that cause them to favor a particular sex.

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