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sex determination: Quick Facts

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Also Known As gender determination

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Know the factors that favor higher production of baby boys than girls which result in skewed sex ratio with human populations
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Frank Rattray Lillie
American zoologist
Stevens, Nettie
Nettie Stevens
American biologist and geneticist
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Calvin Blackman Bridges
American geneticist
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Clarence E. McClung
American zoologist