Volume 29 - Article 33 | Pages 885–906
Could changes in reported sex ratios at birth during China's 1958-1961 famine support the adaptive sex ratio adjustment hypothesis?
By Zhongwei Zhao, Yuan Zhu, Anna Reimondos
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