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Unnatural selection begins with christophe guilmoto, a french demographer, who noticed that not only were fertility rates dropping in india, but the proportion of boys to girls was rising rapidly, from a normal ratio of 105 boys to 100 girls up to 126 to 100 in at least one particularly wealthy region. Unnatural selection mara hvistendahl by kasey lassen issuu. Download unnatural selection ebook pdf or read online books in pdf, epub, and mobi format. In unnatural selection, mara hvistendahl, a beijingbased journalist specializing in science, warns of an impending hormonal tsunami of surplus. Sexselection has yielded an imbalance of 160 million more males than females throughout the developing world in china and india, but also in vietnam and. She is the author of the book the scientist and the spy. Click download or read online button to get unnatural selection book now. This extraordinary debut from mara hvistendahl reveals the fascinating yet terrifying state of sex ratio imbalance.
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