Sorry, Guys: Your Y Chromosome May Be Doomed

[rangerrebew]

Sorry, Guys: Your Y Chromosome May Be Doomed
 
By Darren Griffin and Peter Ellis, The Conversation
smithsonian.com
January 19, 2018

The Y chromosome may be a symbol of masculinity, but it is becoming increasingly clear that it is anything but strong and enduring. Although it carries the “master switch” gene, SRY, that determines whether an embryo will develop as male (XY) or female (XX), it contains very few other genes and is the only chromosome not necessary for life. Women, after all, manage just fine without one.

What’s more, the Y chromosome has degenerated rapidly, leaving females with two perfectly normal X chromosomes, but males with an X and a shrivelled Y. If the same rate of degeneration continues, the Y chromosome has just 4.6m years left before it disappears completely. This may sound like a long time, but it isn’t when you consider that life has existed on Earth for 3.5 billion years.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/y-chromosome-may-be-doomed-180967887/

[Sanguine]

A whole lot of "ifs". 

[Gefn]

Who is to say mankind will be around in 4.6 million years.

Got nuclear bombs?

Or we could evolve to where we don't need bodies anymore.

We could have our brains in robot bodies or AI devices , who knows?

[Joe Wooten]

This study was discredited quite a while back.

http://news.berkeley.edu/2014/01/09/study-dispels-theories-of-y-chromosomes-demise/

http://news.berkeley.edu/2014/01/09/study-dispels-theories-of-y-chromosomes-demise/

This was latched upon by the (white) man hating left as a sign males are doomed. Total BS. If that was the case, then all mammalian males would have disappeared millions of years ago, not just human males.