More male than female mammalian fossils in museum collections

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Researchers discover more male than female mammalian 

fossils in museum collections by Bob Yirka , Phys.org

https://phys.org/news/2019-09-male-female-mammalian-fossils-museum.html

 

The Quirk of Collecting That Skews Museum Specimens 

Male. Only two orders of mammals—containing bats, 

anteaters, and sloths—are biased toward females.

Rachel Gutman, The Atlantic, Sept. 11, 2019

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/09/research-specimens-are-mostly-male/597832/

 

The paper is:

 

Gower, G., Fenderson, L.E., Salis, A.T., Helgen, K.M., van 

Loenen, A.L., Heiniger, H., Hofman-Kamińska, E., Kowalczyk, 

R., Mitchell, K.J., Llamas, B. and Cooper, A., 2019. Widespread 

male sex bias in mammal fossil and museum collections. 

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(38), 

pp.19019-19024.

https://www.pnas.org/content/116/38/19019.short

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.