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Suppose That You Find the Sex Ratio in a Population

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Suppose that you find the sex ratio in a population you are studying is different from what you predicted in your model.Using simple proportions of male and female offspring,show how natural selection should move the sex ratio to the value you predicted in your model over a few generations.


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