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The Female of the Species Is More Doubly Than the Male
Inuit villagers give birth to twice as many girls as boys |
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12 Sep 2007 |
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| Posted at 4:05 PM on 12 Sep 2007 Twice as many girls as boys are being born in Arctic communities across Greenland and northern Russia, where Inuit villagers are known to have high levels of human-made chemicals in their blood. Many babies are being born premature; baby boys tend to be small. Hormone-mimicking chemicals originate in industrialized countries, travel to the Arctic by w ... |
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| Topics: Arctic, Greenland, news, population, Russia, toxics (all these topics) |
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