Abstract
!Kung bands from Lee (1969:55) and the sex ratios computed by Divale. The average sex ratio for these 14 !Kung groups (248 people) is 63:100 for young, and 88:100 for adult, which are different figures than Divale's 84:100 for young a d 108:100 for adults. The lumping together of these figures, then, presents an inaccurate picture of the sex ratios of the majority of the groups. In the Divale and Harris article, 16 of the 20 groups originally used by Divale have been excluded, with selected new groups added to support their thesis that warfare and the male supremacist complex were determinants of sex ratios in primitive populations. Divale and Harris did not include the 14 !Kung bands used by Divale (1972). The Greenland Eskimo and the Mission Yir-Yoront have also been excluded. The !Kung data used by Divale and Harris (1976) are for 19 bands in 1952 rather than the
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