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E(G-B) = 0, E(G/(G+B)) < 0.5.
He did answer the question he posed, which was "What is the expected fraction of girls in a population [of N families]?" It's not an unmeasurably-small hair. It depends on N. When N=4, the expected fraction is about .46.