Gellatly made simulating how the gene would act over 500 generations, and examined whether offspring sex ratios in the real-life family trees supported his hypothesis.

• 盖里特利制作了一个计算机模型来模拟这种基因历经500次遗传会如何发生作用，并调查现实生活中家族后代的性别比例是否符合他的假设。