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Will Chromosome Y Go Bye-Bye?
ABCNews ^ | July 18th 2009

Posted on 07/18/2009 9:59:43 PM PDT by Steelfish

Will Chromosome Y Go Bye-Bye? Is the End of Men Imminent?

By RADHA CHITALE ABC News Medical Unit

July 17, 2009

What makes a man a man? Socially, that is a complicated question. Genetically, however, it is as simple as a single Y chromosome.

Is the male Y chromosome disappearing?

But guys, that chromosome is in trouble.

In a new study, researchers say there is a dramatic loss of genes from the human Y chromosome that eventually could lead to its complete disappearance -- in the next few millennia.

While the Y chromosome's degeneration has been known to geneticists and evolutionary biologists for decades, the study sheds new light on some of the evolutionary processes that may have contributed to its demise and posits that, as the degeneration continues, the Y chromosome could disappear from our genetic repertoire entirely.

"It's certainly possible, but it's difficult to predict when it will happen," said Kateryna Makova, an associate professor of biology at Penn State University, who led the study, which was published Thursday in the journal PLoS Genetics.

Although geneticists and evolutionary biologists agree that the Y chromosome is degenerating -- and far more rapidly than its X counterpart -- they reject the idea of a world far in the future where men are obsolete.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


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1 posted on 07/18/2009 9:59:43 PM PDT by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish

So the world will be full of fat happy lesbians?


2 posted on 07/18/2009 10:06:30 PM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 179 of our national holiday from reality.)
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To: Steelfish

This story is not new. I remember hearing about this years ago.

Just another case of trying to grab the headlines.


3 posted on 07/18/2009 10:07:16 PM PDT by eekitsagreek (Give me a Stanley Cup (or Amy Grant or Sarah Palin) under my Christmas tree PLEASE!)
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To: null and void

No! FAT, Ugly Lesbians like Rosie O’Donnell, Janet Reno and Hillary Clintoon:-) OH! and then the Ellen Degenerates and Rachel Madcows:-) YUK! Hopefully I still wont be around for that scene!


4 posted on 07/18/2009 10:12:37 PM PDT by True Republican Patriot (May GOD Continue to BLESS Our Great President George W. Bush!!)
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To: Steelfish

If that’s the case we have a simple solution: Introduce older (and therefore ‘stronger’) Y Chromosomes into the gene-pool... after all we do have genetic samples from ancient/mid-evil man, right?


5 posted on 07/18/2009 10:15:10 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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6 posted on 07/18/2009 10:15:54 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: Steelfish

Stronger survive.


7 posted on 07/18/2009 10:17:24 PM PDT by allmost
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To: True Republican Patriot

Precisely.


8 posted on 07/18/2009 10:17:42 PM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 179 of our national holiday from reality.)
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To: OneWingedShark

Present!


9 posted on 07/18/2009 10:18:21 PM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 179 of our national holiday from reality.)
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To: JoeProBono

The pic says it all.


10 posted on 07/18/2009 10:22:29 PM PDT by Steelfish
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To: null and void

Do they address what happens then? Do sperm become not needed, a Rosie Bletch has clones who has clones and by the 10 th generation the clones are so ugly and stupid they make sea slugs look smart and gorgeous and tip the scales at a billion pounds a piece?


11 posted on 07/18/2009 10:25:50 PM PDT by True Republican Patriot (May GOD Continue to BLESS Our Great President George W. Bush!!)
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To: Steelfish

Its a non-story. I will not be alive when it happens


12 posted on 07/18/2009 10:35:45 PM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld (A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone-Henry Kissinger)
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To: Steelfish

The premise of this article is valid since it’s clear that their are no Y chromosones in existence among the alphabet networks.


13 posted on 07/18/2009 10:36:23 PM PDT by Rembrandt
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To: Steelfish
OK, I'll go out on a limb here.
Everyone knows that it is normal to have a small Y chromosome.
It is a very simple thing requiring only some beer and a woman.
An X chromosome on the other hand, is an altogether different animal requiring lots of additional inside out and backward wiring to create all sorts of women's moods and other requirements.
This is obviously a story written by someone that hates men and wants to start now to belittle our importance to the continued existence of the species.
14 posted on 07/18/2009 11:58:42 PM PDT by Freeper Fanatic
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To: null and void

lol.


15 posted on 07/19/2009 12:08:00 AM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: Steelfish
PROOF..


16 posted on 07/19/2009 12:10:44 AM PDT by Dallas59 ("You know the one with the big ears? He might be yours, but he ain't my president.")
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To: Steelfish

Paper plates, the future was decided by paper plates — it’s as simple as that.


17 posted on 07/19/2009 12:22:57 AM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, then writes again.)
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To: Steelfish

Godless prophecy.


18 posted on 07/19/2009 4:39:39 AM PDT by Birdsbane ("Onward through the fog!" ... Oat Willie)
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To: Dallas59

I think his real BC list him as either female or hermaphrodite.

It would explain a lot...


19 posted on 07/19/2009 7:23:16 AM PDT by null and void (We are now in day 180 of our national holiday from reality.)
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To: Steelfish

No, no no, I love real men. The problems in society is real men have been neutered.


20 posted on 07/19/2009 7:58:21 AM PDT by PROTESTBYPROXY (Conservatives must man up!!)
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