Men headed for extinction
It looks like that glass ceiling should finally be broken in about 125,000 years:
One by one, Y chromosomes will disappear, eliminated by the relentless onslaught of irreparable mutation, until only one is left. When that chromosome finally succumbs, men will become extinct.
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One line from that article got me:-
"Lesbian couples already enlist the help of a man to donate his set of chromosomes, packaged in a sperm, to fertilize the eggs of one of them. How much more attractive for these couples to have a baby to whom both, rather than just one, were parents."
How timely. Just what I needed for my SF short story I told you I'm working on. My protagonist is a lesbian who just got married.
Oh. And in terms of you going extinct, Flargh. One word.
MUAHAHAAAAAAA.
(ahem.)
Posted by: chocolate-covered treat | October 2, 2003 03:46 PM