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16:58, 3 December 2018 (UTC) Avram Primack ( talk)
This makes no sense. The sex of a mammal is determined by the sperm. There is no way for a female deer or monkey to 'choose' to give birth to sons rather than daughters. Though the may favor newborns of one sex leading to different survival rates.
I removed the statement that said that there is no proposed mechanism for the Trivers-Willard hypothesis. Um...Actually, there is one. See Cameron's "Facultative adjustment of mammalian sex ratios in support of the TriversâWillard hypothesis: evidence for a mechanism" for a good overview of the work relating to T-W that had been published through 2004. AnonymousAnthropologist ( talk) 00:32, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
I removed the link to Dan Willard. It is the wrong Dan Willard. The one referenced in the link is still alive and not an ecologist. My advisor is the correct Dan Willard and does not have a page in Wikipedia. He passed away some ten years ago. Avram Primack ( talk) 16:58, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
The paper introducing the Trivers-Willard hypothesis is listed in the C.V. linked on the Dan Willard wikipedia page, which also lists an affiliation with the Harvard mathematics department at the time of the paper's publication, like the Dan Willard who is an author of the paper. I therefore think it reasonable that the two are the same, and am re-adding the link. Selantic ( talk)
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16:58, 3 December 2018 (UTC) Avram Primack ( talk)
This makes no sense. The sex of a mammal is determined by the sperm. There is no way for a female deer or monkey to 'choose' to give birth to sons rather than daughters. Though the may favor newborns of one sex leading to different survival rates.
I removed the statement that said that there is no proposed mechanism for the Trivers-Willard hypothesis. Um...Actually, there is one. See Cameron's "Facultative adjustment of mammalian sex ratios in support of the TriversâWillard hypothesis: evidence for a mechanism" for a good overview of the work relating to T-W that had been published through 2004. AnonymousAnthropologist ( talk) 00:32, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
I removed the link to Dan Willard. It is the wrong Dan Willard. The one referenced in the link is still alive and not an ecologist. My advisor is the correct Dan Willard and does not have a page in Wikipedia. He passed away some ten years ago. Avram Primack ( talk) 16:58, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
The paper introducing the Trivers-Willard hypothesis is listed in the C.V. linked on the Dan Willard wikipedia page, which also lists an affiliation with the Harvard mathematics department at the time of the paper's publication, like the Dan Willard who is an author of the paper. I therefore think it reasonable that the two are the same, and am re-adding the link. Selantic ( talk)