In almost all countries of the world child mortality of boys is higher than the child mortality of girls:https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/child-mortality-by-gender?xScale=log&yScale=log …
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Tricky issue as the pattern persists through out the entire lifecycle - i.e. men die at higher rates regardless of age group. No one cause.
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How is that even possible? If true for young age groups (seems logical), very unlikely for older groups since men are dead b4 they get old
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I seem to remember that boys tend to be born earlier than girls. This likely makes them more vulnerable.
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That's a proximate (mechanistic) explanation; here's an ultimate (evolutionary) one. Pattern observed first in 1662 http://www-personal.umich.edu/~kruger/Kruger-MFMR_LHT.pdf …pic.twitter.com/lRL4515hDG
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This doesn't account for the sad practice of infant sex selection prior to birth.
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