The Elements Of Men And Women

11-13-2002

By studying some close ancestors to humans, they're currently saying that pretty soon the Y chromosone will become useless.

Something like 300 receptors on the Y chromosone are actually active, whereas the average on a chromosone is around 1500. Basically the chromosone is dying. However this doesn't mean we'll stop producing males of course. Other species have evolved away their Y chromosone equivalents, and used other strands of DNA to do the same job. I forget why we originally spawned this rogue chromosone, but it was at some point where we split with another species in the evolutionary chain.

I'll look it up later, don't have my magazines handy.

C.

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11-13-2002	#1
Cal Guest Posts: n/a	By studying some close ancestors to humans, they're currently saying that pretty soon the Y chromosone will become useless. Something like 300 receptors on the Y chromosone are actually active, whereas the average on a chromosone is around 1500. Basically the chromosone is dying. However this doesn't mean we'll stop producing males of course. Other species have evolved away their Y chromosone equivalents, and used other strands of DNA to do the same job. I forget why we originally spawned this rogue chromosone, but it was at some point where we split with another species in the evolutionary chain. I'll look it up later, don't have my magazines handy. C.