"Wanting to have sons is bad" - BBC
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But having more females than males born isn't natural. Because men have a tendency to die young, the ratio slightly favors boys.
More males being born is natural. I'm not sure you nailed the reason, though. To account for the early death rate of men in a hunter-gatherer state, the ratio would have to be WAY higher than 1.03-1.06. I think the mechanism is a slight increase in viability of male fetuses vs female?