"Wanting to have sons is bad" - BBC
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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?