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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.
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Courtesy of Cal, from the following thread.
http://www.oprano.com/msgboard/index.php?a...ST&f=1&t=382&s=
Last edited by Colin at Nov 14 2002, 05:28 AM