eli5: How does the population ratio between women and men keep so equal? (A Different Approach)

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Hey! I’m wonderin that how does the population ratio is still more or less %50-50 (%49.5 female vs %50.5 male) even that the knowledge we know;

1- Men is being killed, and killed in past in wars.

2- Men is working on heavy-duty jobs that killed men.

3- We also know that the expected life span of a female is higher than men.

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So, there should be some imbalances, right?

Men dies in wars, in dangeroues jobs and has less life time.

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So, how does the ratio keep its balance?

In: Biology

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Anonymous 0 Comments

There is an imbalance between men an women in Rwanda where the number of death of men due to war, in that case civil war / genocide, was truly significant.

In ancient times, it used to be said that when a society had an abundance of males it was ready for war. There are talks about both China and India being ready for war, today. So maybe wars don’t create imbalance but rather restore balance

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