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  2. Human sex ratio - Wikipedia

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    Sex ratio by country for the population below age 15. Blue represents more boys, red more girls than the world average of 1.07 males/female. Sex ratio by country for total population. Blue represents more men and boys, red more women and girls than the world average of 1.01 males/female. Sex ratio by country for the over-65 population.

  3. Sex differences in human physiology - Wikipedia

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    Because of this and because males go through puberty for longer, females typically have lower total muscle mass than males, and also have lower muscle mass in comparison to total body mass. [8] Males convert more of their caloric intake into muscle and expendable circulating energy reserves, while females tend to convert more into fat deposits ...

  4. Trivers–Willard hypothesis - Wikipedia

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    The Trivers–Willard hypothesis has been applied to resource differences among individuals in a society as well as to resource differences among societies.Investigations in humans pose a number of practical and methodological difficulties, [6] but while a 2007 review of previous research found that empirical evidence for the hypothesis was mixed, the author noted that it received greater ...

  5. Scientists May Have Finally Figured Out Why Women Live Longer ...

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    Scientists may have found the reason women live longer than men. A study found men’s life expectancy in the U.S. is six years less than women’s. ... look at changes in life expectancy at birth ...

  6. Why do women live longer than men? - AOL

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    It's no secret that Women usually live longer than men. The question is how do they do it? Well now, Stanford University scientists may have some answers, EyeOpener explains. They put out a study ...

  7. Sex ratio - Wikipedia

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    A newborn male then has better mating prospects than a newborn female, and therefore can expect to have more offspring. Therefore parents genetically disposed to produce males tend to have more than average numbers of grandchildren born to them. Therefore the genes for male-producing tendencies spread, and male births become more common.

  8. Sex differences in humans - Wikipedia

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    "Of the 80 disorders diagnosed in adulthood for which sex ratios are provided, 35 are said to be more common in men than in women (17 of which are substance related or a paraphilia), 31 are said to be more common in women than men, and 14 are said to be equally common in both sexes." [26] Differences in male and female jealousy can also be ...

  9. To Live Longer, Women Need Half as Much Exercise as Men

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    Women tend to have less muscle mass than men, Gulati explains, so “if they do the same amount of strengthening exercises, they may have greater benefits with smaller doses just based on the fact ...