Studies showing High stress job Dads tend to have more girls?
January 25, 2022 6:39 AM Subscribe
I've heard two separate people in the genetics field mention to me that supposedly High testosterone men with high stressed jobs tend to have more daughters than sons.
I see reference made to these studies online, but I can't find any papers etc on these studies. Where can I find them???
(Apparently it all started with a study that showed male fighter pilots tend to have more daughters ... then it was repeated with men who have high testosterone and were in very stressful careers in general.)
I see reference made to these studies online, but I can't find any papers etc on these studies. Where can I find them???
(Apparently it all started with a study that showed male fighter pilots tend to have more daughters ... then it was repeated with men who have high testosterone and were in very stressful careers in general.)
Go to Google Scholar. If i remember correctly, Sathoshi Kanazawa has published on the link between male violence and male offspring, look for articles there, also for generalised Trivers-Willard Hypothesis.
Google Scholar in general has the advantage that you can get the source rather than simplified media articles. You can always read an abstract, the articles themselves may be paywalled. But once you have scholars names and titels of studied it is easier to find pop science articles.
posted by 15L06 at 9:57 AM on January 25, 2022 [1 favorite]
Google Scholar in general has the advantage that you can get the source rather than simplified media articles. You can always read an abstract, the articles themselves may be paywalled. But once you have scholars names and titels of studied it is easier to find pop science articles.
posted by 15L06 at 9:57 AM on January 25, 2022 [1 favorite]
There is some literature on offspring sex ratios in red deer and the effect of dominance which might be related? But most of that is linked to female social position, also it’s about deer. The summary is that females of high rank have more male offspring. No links to papers but the author to start with is Clutton-Brock. For example, Great Expectations: dominance, breeding success and offspring sex ratios in red deer
posted by hydrobatidae at 10:02 AM on January 25, 2022
posted by hydrobatidae at 10:02 AM on January 25, 2022
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There's a paper about the possible effects of high gravity on reproduction, but the high-testosterone, high-stress thing sure sounds like the sort of nonsense stories that insecure dudes spend too much time telling each other.
posted by mhoye at 7:25 AM on January 25, 2022