Geneticist predicts sex free dystopian future

Dilandach said :

There was a sliders episode on this…

Better yet, did anyone think of Angel One, the planet where the men are titchy little wussbags? For top amusement factor just GIS “angel one”.

harvyk1 said :

gooterz said :

No one knows how genes work and less is known about how they change over time other than evolution. The X chromosome holds data for both men and women, seeing that both genders have X and Y.

Not quite true, only men have Y, (an X and a Y) whilst women only have X (two X’s).

Before you completely write us men off for good, there is a species of mouse which has lost it’s Y chromosome, however other genetic factors have kicked in to ensure that there are still two genders at play.

Its true that women only have X and men have X and Y, but there might be instructions on the Y that tell the cells to use parts of the X that the women don’t use.
97% of DNA is junk DNA.

Its also true that the average Penis size is getting larger (And not as a result of those emails)

gooterz said :

No one knows how genes work and less is known about how they change over time other than evolution. The X chromosome holds data for both men and women, seeing that both genders have X and Y.

Not quite true, only men have Y, (an X and a Y) whilst women only have X (two X’s).

Before you completely write us men off for good, there is a species of mouse which has lost it’s Y chromosome, however other genetic factors have kicked in to ensure that there are still two genders at play.

Hm, I was console myself with the fact she’s only a UC academic and could then very well be wrong – then realised she also a Professor at ANU… and University of Melbourne too.

Oh well, 5 millions years is a long time before men become endangered.

And scrub showers in a manly sort of way…

I use the Gerni.

And according to Wikipedia.. Y has 450 genes not 45…. Is she actually a scientist?

If one of those genes mutates, in all 3 billion men world wide?

No one knows how genes work and less is known about how they change over time other than evolution. The X chromosome holds data for both men and women, seeing that both genders have X and Y.

Its apparent in most animals that having 2 genders is genetically important. Anything in the Y gene is expressed in every generation, although it is capable of getting mutated without a “backup” having no backup means that that mutation wont stick around.

Its more likely that humans will split into several different races incapable of inbreeding much more like The time machine with Eloi and Morlocks.

Its worth pointing out that humans used to have 48 chromosomes, 0.1% of men have 47,XYY.
It wouldn’t take much for XYY to become more common and then mutations of X onto Y would form a new gender completely based off the current male DNA.

it took 200,000 years to have a common female ancestor with 10’s of thousands of people. Now we have 7 billion. We have the same chance as men turning back into monkeys.

What’s this talk of the future? Most married men that I know of experience a sex-free dystopian present.

johnboy said :

Fortunately we’ll still be able to build shelves and mow the lawn.

Oh great. So now I have to up-skill to be relevant.

Yes, well, I usually try and avoid rank generalisations about the sexes. But is memory associated with two X chromosomes, given that neither ED seems to remember that we had this same story very recently?:

http://the-riotact.com/weird-animal-genomes-sex-and-the-future-of-men/96483

Now, how are those shelves going? Oh, that’s just lovely.