New research shows high temperatures affect sex ratios at birth | University of Oxford
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'Temperature and sex ratios at birth', a new study led by researchers at the Department of Sociology at the University of Oxford and published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), provides new evidence that higher temperatures can influence the sex ratio at birth, with important implications for population health and gender balance in a warming world.
    • 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      22 days ago

      biology is interesting. and learning more about it helps us understand ourselves better and improve medicine…

      i don’t think that research aims to control if someone will have a boy or a girl.

      like studying the genetics that affect melanin has nothing to do with racial discrimination.

    • dantel@programming.devEnglish
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      22 days ago

      Wait a sec, let me check my notes… because… ah, yeah, because humanity apparently goes extinct when all males die off. Oh. That’s a bummer.

      • Spacehooks@reddthat.comEnglish
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        22 days ago

        Probably ok if only 30% of population are male. Maybe even 10% with genetic database. Society and culture will take hit but realistically sperm is not a hard to come by resources. Lol just imagine mail ordering that stuff.

        • frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish
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          22 days ago

          The rest of the humans will follow shortly. If that still sounds good, change starts at home.

        • dantel@programming.devEnglish
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          22 days ago

          Oh, okay. But wait a second, there’s something on the back as well. So…hmm… apparently there are parents who don’t like it very much when their unborn baby fucking dies.

          Huh.

          But yeah, when what you want is everyone to be miserable and fucking die, then yes, you’re right that in that particular case sex doesn’t matter.

          But remember that’s just you and not everyone is nuts.

        • catsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          21 days ago

          Thought experiment:

           You - "Why is race important again?"

 Because if we got rid of all black people we'd lose perspective and culture.

 You - "Doesn't sound so bad to me"

          Conclusion: you are a bigot

      • AliasAKA@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        22 days ago

        There’s probably is a path to female only reproduction using artificial means. I suppose it would be possible with men too, if we could synthetically gestate a child, but it’s probably easier in women since they possess the evolved ability to gestate. Parthenogenesis has occurred in other organisms, possible perhaps for humans too, with help.

    • Im_old@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      22 days ago

      Because otherwise hearth turns into jurassic world where they were all females.