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PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON SERIES B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
卷 355, 期 1403, 页码 1627-1635出版社
ROYAL SOC LONDON
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2000.0725
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sex ratio; local resource competition; primates
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Birth sex ratios of baboons in Gombe National Park, Tanzania, show an overall male bias of cn. 20%, but there is no obvious explanation for this trend. Individual females did not alter their sex ratios according to persistent levels of local resource competition. Sex ratios showed an unexpected relationship between age and rank: subordinate females had more sons when they were young; dominant females had more sons when they were old. The sex ratio of low-ranking females also varied with the severity of environmental conditions during pregnancy Our findings suggest that mammalian sex ratios might be the product of more complex processes than is generally recognized or that sex-determining mechanisms impose sufficient constraints to prevent adaptive variation in all contexts.
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