Low-ranking wives have more baby girls

Wednesday, July 8, 2009 - 08:22 in Psychology & Sociology

More baby girls are born to low-ranking wives in polygynous marriages than higher-ranking wives and women in single-wife marriages, according to a new study in Rwanda. The findings are published online today in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters...

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