What A Relief: Men Aren't Going Extinct After All

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Many women pine for a world free of men, where they can live among their sisters withoutever having to lower the toilet seat. Well, they’ll have to shelve that fantasy forthe time being. The theories that suggested that the male species was en route toextinction have been debunked.Scientific speculation had estimated that we hadabout five million years left on earth. That’s because the Y chromosome, which makesthings male, was shrinking over time, heading toward ultimate disappearance. The“rotting Y theory” concluded that the Y chromosome had about 1,400 genes 300million years ago but was down to only 45.The good news is that researchers fromMIT examined that study and have poked holes the size of Christina Hendricks’bosom in its credibility.Biologists now say that after a period of rapidcrumbling, the Y chromosome has stabilized. We’re not fading, and we’re goodto go for at least 600 million more years. Hopefully by then cloning will be commonpractice.Good work, boys. Now we can relax and get back to our worrying aboutmore pressing matters. Matters like Christina Hendricks. Continue Reading

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