[aldo_14]

http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/health/HealthRepublish_1710838.htm

The pending demise of the Y chromosome could give rise to a whole new species of human, a professor of comparative genomics says.

Scientists have been speculating about the demise of the Y chromosome for some years now but Professor Jenny Graves of the Australian National University in Canberra has come up with a bold new twist on the theory.

Graves, who has been working on sex chromosomes in marsupials, will present her theory at the 11th International Congress of Genetics in Brisbane today.

She will tell the conference that new 'male making' genes on other chromosomes could step up to do the job of the Y chromosome's SRY gene, which is the key to making males male.

But this could mean men without Y chromosomes would split off from those with, eventually evolving into a new species of hominid.

"It's quite possible that you could make new hominid species that way," she says.

[IPAndrews]

Will the new species resemble Dale Winton?

[Colonol Dekker]

God i hope not..........

[Rand al Thor]

Does this mean soon (in 15million years) all men will feel the undeniable primal urge to watch Supermarket Sweep?

[karajorma]

You mean they don't now?

[IPAndrews]

Oh FFS.

[Mathwiz6]

http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/health/HealthRepublish_1710838.htm

The pending demise of the Y chromosome could give rise to a whole new species of human, a professor of comparative genomics says.

Scientists have been speculating about the demise of the Y chromosome for some years now but Professor Jenny Graves of the Australian National University in Canberra has come up with a bold new twist on the theory.

Graves, who has been working on sex chromosomes in marsupials, will present her theory at the 11th International Congress of Genetics in Brisbane today.

She will tell the conference that new 'male making' genes on other chromosomes could step up to do the job of the Y chromosome's SRY gene, which is the key to making males male.

But this could mean men without Y chromosomes would split off from those with, eventually evolving into a new species of hominid.

"It's quite possible that you could make new hominid species that way," she says.

Ok, Ok, no sexism, but still.... How did that idea come about? Any proofs? Anything? Or is it a nice idea, which makes not a lot of sense, with no proofs?

Poor me, I'm going to be extinct....

[ilya]

If this does happen, it will take many, many, many years. Soon is relative.

[Rand al Thor]

You mean they don't now?

Only when I've got an entire box of Cadburys Roses to eat, have been wearing my dressing gown and slippers for over 5 hours and its 3am.

Livin the dream...

[Roanoke]

You wasn't born a man. You were born a baby. Then grew up to be a man.
























well someone was gonna post it 

[Mars]

IMHO there won't be humans (at least, not Homo Sapien Sapiens) 15 million years from now, so I don't think they can predict gender ratios like that.

[IceFire]

Sounds like a sensationalized topic but interesting.  I know the gender ratio is starting to head towards females but this is interesting.  A few people I know through work are wondering whats going on because every single person they know who's had a baby in the last 2 years has had a girl except one.  Not that its a big enough population sample to say that there's some sort of "crisis" just that its an odd sort of thing.

[Harbinger of DOOM]

Does this mean soon (in 15million years) all men will feel the undeniable primal urge to watch Supermarket Sweep?

Oh god, invasion of the Richard Simmons clones!

[Ferret]

Oh FFS.

This reply made me laugh out loud.

[Apathy]

bah we will probably have killed ourselves off or been stroggified by aliens by the time this could actually happen, especially has this has no proof.