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> the human Y chromosome is degenerating and may disappear in a few million years, leading to our extinction unless we evolve a new sex gene. Not how evolution
by mouse_ 2y ago
> the human Y chromosome is degenerating and may disappear in a few million years, leading to our extinction unless we evolve a new sex gene.
Not how evolution works
- ahazred8ta 2y ago"The human Y chromosome has not lost any genes since the divergence of humans and chimpanzees between 6–7 million years ago. Additionally, a scientific report in 2012 stated that only one gene had been lost since humans diverged from the rhesus macaque 25 million years ago." -- WP TLDR the human Y is not shrinking