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The Y Chromosome Now A Fraction of its Original Size (nytimes.com)
10 points by tysone on Feb 22, 2012 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



> The male sex would then become extinct, they fear, leaving women to invent some virgin-birth method of reproduction and propagate a sexless species.

A fear which was, of course, always unwarranted since there are examples of species having shifted to different sex-determination processes after fully extinguishing their Y chromosome and losing SRY.

And even then, the theoretical complete loss of Y in humans was millions years away in the worst case.




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