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The mass killing of this bird caused a great famine in China!
China has continuously played down the causes and effects of the Great Famine, which is still officially known as the "Three Years of Difficult Period" or "Three Years of Natural Disasters." ...
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The Four Pests Campaign: How Killing Sparrows Led to Famine in China
From 1958-1962 in China, The Four Pests Campaign was part of a movement called The Great Leap Forward ... aspects enough to create a disastrous famine that led to the deaths of at least 15 ...
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THE FAMINE IN CHINA.
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Could changes in reported sex ratios at birth during and after China’s 1958-1961 famine support the adaptive sex ratio adjustment hypothesis?
BACKGROUND The adaptive sex ratio adjustment hypothesis suggests that when mothers are in poor conditions the sex ratio of their offspring will be biased towards females. Major famines provide ...