Optimistic mothers have boys, study says

:"'It implies that the machinery of the body is subtly taking into account these kinds of contextual differences,'"
And that's the interesting thing: how our perceptions can have somatic effects; more mind-body interlock discovered; itself evidence that emergent views of reality are on the right lines [in this case because of the somewhat determinitive effect of a higher-level /emergent reality -the mind- on lower-level realities -the biochemistry of a person. Just reading about this 'teleology' in
The Cosmic Dance: Scientific Harmony in the Universe at the moment.