gender

i recently read that there is a slightly higher likelihood of giving birth to a male over a female because male infants have a higher infant mortality rate. I would have to think that men also have a higher mortality rate in adolescence and adulthood because of the types of jobs men work and our natural inclination to be dumb assholes.

in china, india, south korea and vietnam there are significantly more adult men than women. they credit this to the preference of a male heir to a female one, political policy that limits the size of families and medical advances that allow parents to determine the gender very early in pregnancy. in a strange twist of fate, the giant island of plastic that floats around the pacific ocean is leading to female only births in some places. when the fish eat the plastic and then we eat the fish, the plastic gets into our bodies and somehow effects the gender of our offspring. it seems like nature evening itself out, but i don't want to blame this one of nature.