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Re:The Disappearing Male [video] by ericb on Monday November 24, 2008 @10:53PM (#375962)
Males have only one copy of the X chromosome, which makes them more fragile. Not sure if this is the mechanism proposed, but if male fetuses do not make it to term due to environmental insults, there would be fewer males in a given population.
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Re:The Disappearing Male [video] by tlrobinson on Tuesday November 25, 2008 @02:43AM (#376148)
Yeah, I think that's one of the real reasons, but at the beginning they imply it has something to do with males becoming more infertile, which makes no sense.
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