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Nature 424, 616-617 (7 August 2003) | doi:10.1038/424616b
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The struggle for sexual inequality
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BOOK REVIEWED-Sex Wars: Genes, Bacteria, and Biased Sex Ratios
by Michael E. N. Majerus
Princeton University Press: 2003. 280 pp. $45, £29.95
In the first edition of On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin made a brave and essentially correct attempt to explain the striking rule that males and females occur in equal numbers. In later editions, however, he described the problem of the even sex ratio as being "so intricate that it is safer to leave its solution to the future".
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