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Biologists Debunk the "Rotting Y Chromosome" Theory
An anonymous reader writes "Biologists have previously predicted that that the male sex-determining Y chromosome, which once carried around 800 genes, like the X, has lost hundreds of them over the past 300 million years, will mutate itself out of existence, leading to the eventual extinction of men. However, researchers of a study published in the latest issue of Nature found evidence to suggest that the Y chromosome will not shed any more of the 19 ancestral genes that it is left with."
I tend to shed my genes all over the place ... on the floor, in some Kleenex, in dirty socks...
It's a common condition afflicting millions of male zombies worldwide.
... go-forward time machine. That way, when Sally McKnight in high school told me, "No way, not if you were literally the last man alive", I can finally test this theory!
I'm not getting absolutely no sex because I'm a hideous subhuman monster, physically and emotionally... no. I'm doing it for SCIENCE.
Check out my sci-fi book "Lacuna" at http://goo.gl/MVxX8
I think the old expression "people should be careful what they ask for" applies here. Imagine a planet populated by only women. Now imagine a high percentage of those women having that "special time of the month" at the same time. WWIII... I don't think those rabid feminists were really thinking things through.
On second thought, maybe they did think it through, and were planning on taking Aunt Flo out of the equation anyhow. I'm going to stop thinking about this now, because it's starting to get scary.
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Yes ... those genes DO in fact make your ass look big.
And all that cake isn't helping either ...
> ...evolution will see that...
Don't anthropomorphize evolution. It doesn't like that.
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...the Y chromosome is already rotten.
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Back in the day there was a Far Side cartoon of a cave man forming cylinder-like shapes with his hands, holding them to his eyes like binoculars and staring intently at the table in front of him. The caption read: Prehistoric Microbiologists. I always thought: "Stupid caveman! He can't see anything." Now I realize he was staring at a Y chromosome... Because it would have been that much larger in his day.
The comments made me think of this: http://www.psy.fsu.edu/~baumeistertice/goodaboutmen.htm . The changing roles of the sexes and modern technology are causing people to honestly ask the question, what are men FOR? As I look back on 50 years of life and 35 years of dating/interacting with females, I wonder too.
We go to work day in and day out and pay the bills while our wives stay at home, watch daytime TV and talk us into getting a housekeeper to come over twice a week.
You know, because we are the smart ones.
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If one defines free will as "the ability of the conscious mind to make long term plans and see them to fruition"
I define free will as "the ability to make decisions which is not a direct product of causality", and believe it doesn't exist.
I consider the human mind entirely capable of making long term plans and seeing them to fruition, which is the illusion of free will. If neuroscience questions this ability, then neuroscientists need to get out more.