Social status and the secondary sex ratio
New evidence on a lingering controversy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5958768 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lee Ellis (0000-0002-3457-5617, Minot State University, corresponding author), Steven Bonin (Minot State University) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 35-43 |
| Publication date | 2002-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Biodemography and Social Biology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1948-5565 • E-ISSN: 1948-5573 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/19485565.2002.9989047 |
| PMID | 14652908 |
| OpenAlex | W2028583601 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 36 |
Because women are more likely than men to use social status as a criterion in mate selection, evolutionary theory has led to the hypothesis that higher proportions of males will be born to parents of high social status than to parents of low status. To date, the research that has tested this deduction has not provided consistent support. This could be partly due to the small sample size in several of the studies. The present study tested the hypothesis using 6 different social status measures provided by more than 11,000 United States and Canadian college students. The offspring sex ratio was measured by asking the students their own sex plus that of each of their siblings. No evidence was found to support the hypothesis that parental social status has any significant effect on the sex ratio of offspring
Biology · Developmental psychology · Offspring · Population · Pregnancy · Sex ratio · Sex selection · Social science · Social status · Sociology · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Demography · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Psychology · Social Psychology
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The Trivers–Willard hypothesis of parental investment
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The Effect of Polygyny on Sex Ratio at Birth
Men as success objects and women as sex objects
The ideal love object
Sex- and Age-Related Differences in Colour Vocabulary
Trivers‐Willard effect in contemporary North American society
Waiting for Trivers and Willard
Why Sex Matters
Sex ratio at birth deviations in modern Venezuela
Human sex-ratio manipulation
Social and regional fluctuations in the secondary sex ratio in the Federal Republic of Germany
Relationships between the human sex ratio and the woman's microenvironment
Campus Values in Mate Selection
Intermarriage in Caste Societies1
Sociobiology, Status, and Parental Investment in Sons and Daughters
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2019 (15) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |