Birth sex ratio in captive mammals: Patt
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Lisa J. Faust; Steven D. Thompson
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Article
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2000
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Sex allocation theory predicts that a female should produce the offspring of the sex that most increases her own fitness. For polygynous species, this means that females in superior condition should bias offspring production toward the sex with greater variation in lifetime reproductive success, whi