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The Descent of Human Sex Ratio at Birth A Dialogue between Mathematics, Biology and Sociology

:	Éric Brian, Marie Jaisson
:	The Descent of Human Sex Ratio at Birth A Dialogue between Mathematics, Biology and Sociology
:	Springer-Verlag
:	9781402060366
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:	CHF 85.40
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:	Sozialwissenschaften allgemein
:	English

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This is an attempt to renew our links with the oldest traditions of scholarly thinking, but is also a well-tempered reflection on today's work in objectivization. After a deconstruction of the past and present conditions of scientific understanding of human sex-ratio at birth, the authors propose a reconstruction of the dynamics of the phenomenon based on stochastics. Appendices provide information on the first expression of sex ratio trends, as well as a comparison of Darwin's treatments of the subject.

	CONTENTS	6
	FOREWORD	8
	NOTE ON TRANSLATION	11
	INTRODUCTION	14
	PHYSICO-THEOLOGY AND MATHEMATICS ( 1710 1794)	19
	1. THE CENTURY OF PHYSICO-THEOLOGY	19
	2. SCEPTICISM ILLUMINATED	24
	3. THE BEGINNINGS OF THE ANALYTICAL THEORY OF PROBABILITIES	30
	4. DOES HUMANKIND GAMBLE ON PROBABILITIES?	35
	PHYSIOLOGY, PROBABILITIES AND STATISTICS ( 1795 1830)	44
	1. ADMINISTRATIVE COUNTING AND ANALYSIS OF CHANCES	44
	2. A SIMPLE RULE FOR PRACTICE	51
	3. POST-REVOLUTIONARY AGRONOMY AND THE THEORY OF GENERATION	54
	4. THE BLADE FALLS IN PARIS: POISSON S CALCULUS OF PROBABILITIES	61
	5. ENGLISH AND GERMAN WAYS	67
	STATISTICAL SOURCES, LAW AND MEDICINE ( 1846 1876)	75
	1. THE GLOBALIZATION OF FIGURES	75
	2. THE LEGEND OF THE HOFACKER- SADLER LAW	82
	3. THE MAKING OF BIRTH RECORDS	85
	4. THE EXPERIENCE OF LEGAL MEDICINE	96
	SELECTION, SEXES AND STATISTICS ( SINCE 1871)	102
	1. SUCH AN INTRICATE PROBLEM	102
	2. DARWIN S ARGUMENTS	106
	3. WAYS THROUGH THE LABYRINTH	120
	4. INTERLUDE: IN WHICH WE PUT PAID TO SOME COMMONPLACES	129
	A SOCIOLOGICAL ISSUE AND ITS PERVERSION ( 1898 1942)	136
	1. COMTE: FORCLOSURE ON AN OBJECT	136
	2. DURKHEIM: THE LIMITS OF METHOD	139
	3. HALBWACHS: A PROBABILISTIC SOCIOLOGY	142
	4. THE WORST CASE TEST	154
	A STOCHASTIC RE-EVALUATION	159
	1. IS HUMAN SEX RATIO AT BIRTH A CONSTANT?	159
	2. A SLIPPERY VARIABILITY?	163
	3. A STOCHASTIC RECONSTRUCTION	172
	4. THE DYNAMIC OF HUMAN SEX RATIO AT BIRTH	183
	CONCLUSION	191
	CONDORCET (1743 1794)	200
	CHARLES DARWIN (1809 1882)	209
	MAURICE HALBWACHS (1877 1945)	218
	SEX RATIOS AT BIRTH AND THE CALCULUS OF PROBABILITIES	231
	LIST OF REFERENCES	240
	INDEX	259