Nature’s Gender Reveal

on April 1, 2025
Featured in Answers Magazine

A new paper published by The Royal Society is looking for reasons why humans have nearly equal numbers of male and female babies, while many animals have more female offspring than male.

For now, the answer rests only in conjecture, but Scripture offers some insight: God created humans to procreate as one man with one woman. Meanwhile, male animals often impregnate numerous females. Human gender ratios might reveal one of the created differences between humans and animals.

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