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The bias in favour of boys is shrinking in developing countries even as a preference for girls emerges in the rich world
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Millions of girls were aborted for being girls. Now parents often lean towards them

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Bipaternal human children, though, are still far away

But the men seem to benefit more

It could set back progress keeping mothers and newborns safe

A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist