sex ratio
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of sex ratio
First recorded in 1905–10
Example Sentences
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While their capacity for male pregnancy has long fascinated people, new information on sex ratio and pregnancy seasonality has been discovered by, well, you.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 25, 2024
Her county has a low sex ratio, which means there are more women than men.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 15, 2023
In fact, deceased female individuals were rarely related to either family tree, and there was an unbalanced sex ratio among the remains found on the site, suggesting that most of the adult daughters were absent.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 10, 2023
In a 2017 review of dozens of studies, researchers from Britain estimated that the true sex ratio was closer to 3 to 1.
From New York Times ● Apr. 10, 2023
If the sex ratio were near unity, then, with 92 men 40 years or younger, there must have been 47 men over that age and 135 women of all ages.
From The Aboriginal Population of the San Joaquin Valley, California by Cook, Sherburne F.
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