> On 10-Apr-11 10:21 AM, Aadisht Khanna wrote: > > >> in a situation where *muscle power* is of monotonically decreasing > >> importance to survival, why would the sex ratio be as skewed as it is? > >> > > > > Hysteresis. > > Fair enough (as far as it goes), but the length of lag is a matter of > serious concern at this point. > > Udhay > -- > ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com)) >
I didn't know the meaning on monotonically and hysteresis and looked them both up. I think the lag is at the tipping point, isn't it? Might it become what somebody (Bernhard I think) talked about-- dowry flipping genders? The future of this sad social experiment is going to be interesting?. Regards, Shoba Shoba Narayan http://shobanarayan.com/
