Hard cover. 2007 ed. Language: English. Pages: 258. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 258 p. Methodos 4. This is an attempt to renew our links with the oldest traditions of scholarly thinking but is also a well-tempered reflection on today s work in objectivization. After a deconstruction of the past and present conditions of scientific understanding of human sex-ratio at birth the authors propose a reconstruction of the dynamics of the phenomenon based on stochastics. Appendices provide information on the first expression of sex ratio trends as well as a comparison of Darwin s treatments of the subject.