Male pride: scientists report halt in decay of the Y chromosome

 
The Daily Edge
23 Feb, 2012
 
SCIENTISTS HAVE AFFIRMED that men aren’t going to be written out of history just yet – after affirming that the decline in the Y chromosome appears to have stalled.

A study published yesterday has put paid to the theory that evolution was writing men out of existence – after scientists noted, around a decade ago, observed that the presence of the chromosome had waned over time.

Writing in the latest issue of Nature, a team of researchers led by Prof Jennifer Hughes of MIT say that the decline of the Y chromosome – the very thing which makes men… well, men – has been arrested.

Their research – which finds that the decline in the Y chromosome seems to have reached a plateau – ends the ‘rotting Y theory’ in which it was thought that the Y chromosome would continue to wane until it simply disappeared.

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