female offspring

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However in those rats fed a ketogenic diet only 22% of male offspring, and 12% of female offspring, developed these problems.

From Science Daily • Oct. 12, 2025

According to the company’s plans, female offspring produced by the modified insects die, causing the population to collapse.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 6, 2023

Virgin birth, which usually results in female offspring, is thought to be triggered in several situations.

From Scientific American • Jun. 9, 2023

In contrast, researchers found no evidence that raising female offspring — who achieve complete independence from their parent and do not demand continued feeding as adults — reduce a mother’s future reproductive chances.

From Washington Post • Feb. 9, 2023

We recognise such cases by the females having been rendered more highly ornamented than the males,—their ornamental characters having been transmitted exclusively or chiefly to their female offspring.

From The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex Volume II (1st Edition) by Darwin, Charles