Globull warming is going to kill us all in 7.243 more years, so we won't be around anyway.
It does explain Tim Walz tho…
And I thought we were supposed to ‘follow the science’...
“I thought current thinking is that chromosomes don’t exist?”
Where did you get that strange idea?
Wanna see the Y-chromosomes disappear a whole lot faster?
Just hand pictures of Camel-Uh in every rest room in America
The author is fantasizing and should instead be working out his salvation with fear and trembling.
For sure the ones without it will go extinct...
RE: The Y chromosome, which contains the male-determining gene in humans and other mammals, is degenerating in the human species and may cease to exist after a few million years. . .
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I don’t believe we’ll have to worry about that...
Article says Y is degenerating, and may cease to exist after a few million years.
Wonder if anyone will care to weigh in in a few million years to see if the prediction was correct?
another article with an agenda. and a headline to get you excited.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/new-dna-telomere-chromosomes-pangenome
Some males lose the Y chromosome from some of their cells. The loss puts them at risk for cancer, Alzheimer’s disease and other illnesses.
A few million years.... There will be a mass extinction event far before that which is a universal mulligan.
A few million years???
Gloria Steinem can hardly wait... And in a million years she will still be defending Bill Clinton sexually abusing his 20 year old intern.
It’s a fairly straightforward equation. Due to harsh environmental conditions, species need more chromosomes to make them more adaptable. However, when starvation is an issue, species need fewer chromosomes to use less energy in cell reproduction.
However, there are any number of other variables that come into play.
However, it is reasonable to say that if the “Y” chromosome dies out, an “X” chromosome will step up to take its place.
The article states that 5 genes have been disappearing every million years, presumably an average. It suggests that the remaining 55 will be gone in 11 million years.
It is unlikely that such a decrease will continue in the future. It might accelerate, but is more likely to decelerate.
One example would be a process where X% of the genes disappear per time period.
Vanishing Y Chromosome in Males Casts Uncertainty About Future of Men
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Another crisis to worry about.... /s