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Climate change will affect the ratio of male-to-female newborns, scientists say

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rangerrebew:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/23/health/climate-change-infant-sex-ratio-intl/index.html?no-st=1548253610Climate change will affect the ratio of male-to-female newborns, scientists say
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By Susan Scutti, CNN

Updated 5:23 AM ET, Wed January 23, 2019
 

(CNN)Global warming will have a variety of effects on our planet, yet it may also directly impact our human biology, research suggests.

Specifically, climate change could alter the proportion of male and female newborns, with more boys born in places where temperatures rise and fewer boys born in places with other environmental changes, such as drought or wildfire caused by global warming.

A recent study in Japan found a link between temperature fluctuations and a lower male-to-female sex ratio at birth, with conceptions of boys especially vulnerable to external stress factors, wrote Dr. Misao Fukuda, lead study author and founder of the M&K Health Institute in Hyogo.
 

rangerrebew:
Most assuredly CNN didn't write this article.  How can the great liberal icon claim there are but TWOgenders at birth when it is "settled science" there may be a hundred fifty or more. :whistle:

Wingnut:
You won't need no husband, won't need no wife
You'll pick your son, pick your daughter too
From the bottom of a long glass tube....

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