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    Human Sex Ratio At Birth

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    law of segregation applied to X and Y chromosomes, the numbers of boys and girls born are supposed to be equal, so the sex ratio for humans is expected to be 50:50 (1). However, in the real world, the observed results do not follow this pattern; the actual values can be as high as 170 boys born to 100 girls (2). The major reason that supposedly causes such imbalance in human sex ratio at birth is that more male embryos tend to survive throughout pregnancy (3). The reason why it is happening is not

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    and Jackson State Community College, states that Ronald Ericsson discovered that Y-chromosome sperm swim faster than X-chromosome sperm. By separating the sperm based upon how fast they swam within test tubes, Ericsson could inseminate the desired sex-producing sperm (2). However, this method is only 50% effective. Flow cytometry, another technique that uses fluorescent dye to differentiate the sperm, began being used in 1995. “Because of differences in the amount of DNA contained in the two types

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    happily ever after. But society needs heritage, so in the social division of labor among the many, there are a few people who were picked out as a social memory of inheritors. This tradition, in the film called "giver." The chosen one, you need all the human emotions, including joy of joys and sorrows, including killings, including disaster, must accept it and continue. And other peoples besides him, although looks too happy joy, but merely the result of asymmetric information, the information is only

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    China’s One-Child Policy: Destructive or Constructive? Classical Argument Essay China’s one-child policy has created a wide range of debates as to whether it is helpful or detrimental to the country due to the conditions it holds. In 1978, China discussed a law stating married couples could only have one child within their lifetime. This policy was eventually applied a couple years later, in 1980, after they discussed the various terms of the policy. After several years of action, China added flexibility

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    China’s One Child Policy Essay

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    Mingliang argues that, “China, through the one-child policy, has instituted the most aggressive, comprehensive population policy in the world” (1). This policy limits all families in the Republic of China to have only one child, regardless of the sex: however, within this policy there are some exceptions. It is possible to have two children only if the first child is born with a disability, if parents work in a high risk job, if the couple lives in villages, or if the family is a non- Han, otherwise

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    undergraduates to universities.  The reasons leading to this situation including individual, family, school, and social factors. university student sex ratio imbalance on regional development and the future of human sex ratio may cause serious adverse effects. Especially at present, economy desperately needs a variety of people, college student sex ratio imbalance will impact on our future personnel structure, thus affecting the country 's overall innovative

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    them. These missing women were victims of sex-selective abortions, pushed onto the Asian population by a patriarchal society in a way to control population growth. Mara Hvistendahl’s “Missing: 163 Million Women” focuses on the causes, consequences, and global implications of the gender imbalance in congruence with sharing of local practices. Kwame Anthony Appiah offers cosmopolitan concepts of taking interest in practices that lend significance to human life and shared practices in his book Cosmopolitanism

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    Chinese Gendercide

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    As human move further into the 21st century, the serious imbalance in sex ratio at birth is becoming obsolete. The preferences of son resulting from the economic benefits and social value is whispered in many Asian country.( Narayan Das 1987 pp.157) “Women are missing in their millions—aborted, killed, neglected to death. In 1990 an Indian economist, Amartya Sen, put the number at 100m” (Alamy, 2010) Argubly, this issue is becoming an obstacle for the world. This article will focus on this socioeconomic

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    consequences, including a higher crime rate and an increase in the elderly population, who only have one child to support them. Most significantly, the policy caused a national “gendercide” and an influx of Chinese bachelors, indirectly causing an increase in sex trafficking in and around the country. Did the one-child policy achieve its intended effect, or did it cause many more inadvertent effects that it could not control? The one-child policy was implemented in 1979 by the Chinese government (The Economist

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    populations rely on close to equal sex ratios for their species to thrive. With the changing climate more and more reptiles are at risk. This is because global warming may influence health, spatial distribution, growth, and reproductive output (Simoncini 2014). Along with that, the change in temperature will affect the incubation temperature, embryonic development, sex ratios, and hatchling success (Simoncini 2014). Not only that, but global change may result in a stronger sex ratio bias, which could lead to

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