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Published online 23 July 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/454374a

Where have all the flowers gone?

At least 117 boys were being born for every 100 girls at the beginning of this century in China. Philip Ball asks whether Chinese birth rates can be controlled without exacerbating the gender imbalance.

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