The Descent of Human Sex Ratio at Birth A Dialogue between Mathematics, Biology and Sociology /

• Main Authors: Brian, Éric (Author), Jaisson, Marie (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2007.
• Series: Methodos Series ; 4
• Subjects: Social sciences.; History.; Probabilities.; Sociology.; Sex (Psychology).; Gender expression.; Gender identity.; Social Sciences.; Social Sciences, general.; Sociology, general.; Gender Studies.; History of Science.; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.

"Since the 18th century, one phenomenon, the proportion of the sexes at birth among human beings, has contributed to various developments such as the calculus of probabilities, administrative statistics, the moral and social sciences, the statistics of variability, post-Darwinian biology and Du...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword
• Note on Translation
• Introduction
• 1: Physico-Theology and Mathematics (1710-1794)
• 2: Physiology, Probabilities and Statistics (1795-1830)
• 3: Statistical Sources, Law and Medicine (1846-1876)
• 4: Selection, Sexes and Statistics (since 1871)
• 5: A Sociological Issue and its Perversion (1898-1942)
• 6: A Stochastic Re-Evaluation
• Conclusion
• Appendix A: Condorcet (1743-1794)
• Appendix B: Charles Darwin (1809-1882)
• Appendix C: Maurice Halbwachs (1877-1945)
• Appendix D: Sex Ratios at Birth and the Calculus of Probabilities
• List of References.