Selection against small males in utero: a test of the Wells hypothesis | Zendy

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Selection against small males in utero: a test of the Wells hypothesis

Author(s) -

Ralph Catalano,

Julia M. Goodman,

C. E. Margerison-Zilko,

Katherine Saxton,

E Anderson,

Mollie Epstein

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

human reproduction

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.446

H-Index - 226

eISSN - 1460-2350

pISSN - 0268-1161

DOI - 10.1093/humrep/der480

Subject(s) - in utero , stressor , small for gestational age , affect (linguistics) , gestational age , birth weight , psychology , demography , pregnancy , biology , fetus , clinical psychology , genetics , communication , sociology

The argument that women in stressful environments spontaneously abort their least fit fetuses enjoys wide dissemination despite the fact that several of its most intuitive predictions remain untested. The literature includes no tests, for example, of the hypothesis that these mechanisms select against small for gestational age (SGA) males.

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