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2. Sex selection - Wikipedia

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   When used for family balancing indications in such countries as the United States, pre-conceptual sex selection is widely sought without any preferential selection of males. A 1993 survey of more than 2300 pregnant women in the British population found no overall preference for either sex.

3. Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques Act, 1994

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   An Act to provide for the prohibition of sex selection, after conception, and for regulation of prenatal diagnostic techniques for the purposes of detecting genetic abnormalities or metabolic disorders or chromosomal abnormalities or certain congenital malformations or sex-linked disorders and for the prevention of their misuse for sex determination leading to female foeticide; and, for ...

4. Preimplantation genetic diagnosis - Wikipedia

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   In that setting PGD for sex selection for gender variety appears to be justified. It may be possible to make other "social selection" choices in the future that introduce socio-economic concerns. Only unaffected embryos are implanted in a woman's uterus; those that are affected are either discarded or donated to science. [70]

5. Prenatal sex discernment - Wikipedia

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   Sex determination ban in India. Prenatal sex determination was banned in India in 1994, under the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques Act, 1994. [6] The act aims to prevent sex-selective abortion, which, according to the Indian Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, "has its roots in India's long history of strong patriarchal influence in all spheres of life".

6. Sexual selection in humans - Wikipedia

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   Anthropologist Peter Frost has proposed that sexual selection for women with unusual hair or eye color was responsible for the evolution of pigmentary traits in European populations, [128] however this theory has since been refuted by data-based evidence from genetics and spectrophotometry, [129] [130] and multiple studies have shown that women ...

7. Sexual selection - Wikipedia

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   Sexual selection creates colourful differences between sexes in Goldie's bird-of-paradise.Male above; female below. Painting by John Gerrard Keulemans.. Sexual selection is a mechanism of evolution in which members of one sex choose mates of the other sex to mate with (intersexual selection), and compete with members of the same sex for access to members of the opposite sex (intrasexual ...

8. NASA Astronaut Group 8 - Wikipedia

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   The six women astronaut candidates pose with the Personal Rescue Enclosure (PRE). The PRE was created as a possible means of transporting astronauts from one Shuttle to another in case of an emergency, but only reached the prototype stage and never flew on any missions. The selection board assessed 649 of the pilot applicants as qualified.

9. Jegertroppen - Wikipedia

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   In addition there are required tests in 10 kilograms (22 lb) medicine ball throw, standing long jump, and 3000-meter run which will not disqualify, but do count towards selection. [18] There is a 3 week pre-selection course learning basic skills before commencing the week long selection course named "hell week" that is a test of mental and ...