Fifty:Fifty Offspring Sex Ratios in Savannah Sparrows (Passerculus Sandwichensis)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract Over a 14 year period, we determined offspring sex ratios in a population of Savannah Sparrows (Passerculus sandwichensis) breeding on Kent Island, an isolated 80 ha island in the Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick, Canada, based on morphological measurements of 318 independent juveniles and 361 returning adults of known parentage. The mean annual offspring sex ratio was exactly 1.00 (±0.23, range= 0.61–1.41, n = 14). In no year did offspring sex ratio deviate significantly from 50:50, regardless of the sex ratio of breeding adults. Offspring sex ratio did not vary as a function of the timing of breeding, maternal or paternal age, or parental mating status (monogamy vs. polygamy). Overall, our data provide strong support for 50:50 offspring sex ratios at the population level (Fisher 1930), but no support for the notion of adaptive modification of offspring sex ratios by individuals (Trivers and Willard 1973).
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".