书目名称 | The Descent of Human Sex Ratio at Birth | 副标题 | A Dialogue between M | 编辑 | Éric Brian,Marie Jaisson | 视频video | | 概述 | A systematic account about human sex-ratio at birth : facts and theories since the 18th century.An attempt to deal with randomness from a foundational perspective in social sciences.An analysis of the | 丛书名称 | Methodos Series | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .Since the 18th century, one phenomenon, the proportion of the sexes at birth among human beings, has contributed to various developments such as the calculus of probabilities, administrative statistics, the moral and social sciences, the statistics of variability, post-Darwinian biology and Durkheimian sociology. This fact is brought to the critical attention of readers who rarely work together -- mathematicians, biologists, historians, social scientists and historians of the sciences -- along a three centuries European journey, meeting Süssmilch, Condorcet, Laplace, Fourier, Girou de Buzareingues, Poisson, Quetelet, Darwin, Düsing, Gini, Halbwachs or Fisher...After a deconstruction of the past and present conditions of scientific understanding of human sex-ratio at birth, the authors are proposing a reconstruction of the dynamics of the phenomenon based on stochastics. This is an attempt in renewing our links with the oldest traditions of scholarly thinking, but too a kind of "well-tempered" reflexivity in today’s work of objectivization...Appendixes get to the reader the first expression of a trend of the sex ratio at birth to adjust towards balance between the sexes by Condorce | 出版日期 | Book 2007 | 关键词 | Charles Darwin; Evaluation; Moral; Sex; Trend; physiology; sociology; statistics | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6036-6 | isbn_softcover | 978-90-481-7511-6 | isbn_ebook | 978-1-4020-6036-6Series ISSN 1572-7750 Series E-ISSN 2542-9892 | issn_series | 1572-7750 | copyright | Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2007 |
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