Men’s sex chromosome is “doomed”

The following is an excerpt.

The poorly designed Y chromosome, which makes men is degrading rapidly and will disappear, even if humans are still around, an evolutionary geneticist has claimed.

Jenny Graves from Canberra University’s Institute for Applied Ecology, said that the process is likely to happen within the next five million years but could have begun in some isolated groups, the Herald Sun reported.

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