Note 417 — Chapter III · THEORY OF THE ORIGINAL PAIRING OR MONOGAMOUS FAMILY
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Oettingen, Moralstatistik in ihrer Bedeutung für eine Socialethik, 55; Westermarck, op. cit., 469. Darwin, Descent of Man, chap, viii, discusses the numerical proportion of the sexes, showing their inequality. Cf. Ploss, Das Weib, I, 244-46, giving a table of the number of male and female births for European countries and for several of the commonwealths of the United States, the male predominating.