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https://www.quantamagazine.org/20151201-the-incredible-shrinking-sex-chromosome/

just learnt about this yesterday and want to know what are your thoughts on the matter.

>> No.8699867

>>8699851
>Media reaction has been predictable, with overheated headlines proclaiming “Men on road to extinction.”

remind me again how trump is wrong about the media

>> No.8699886

>>8699867
you really cant discuss something without bringing up politics doenst it?

>> No.8699899

humans will move on from sexual reproduction much sooner than this becoming an issue. The Y will be considered obsolete in the next millennium.

>> No.8699903

>>8699899
>this is what virgins have to tell themselves to sleep at night

>> No.8699906

>>8699886
>discuss
>the incredible shrinking sex chromosone
no

Here's the entirety of the article

an Australian biologist, is probably best known for a dire prediction: the human Y chromosome, which makes males male, could disappear in the next 5 million years. In the last 190 million years, the number of genes on the Y has plummeted from more than 1,000 to roughly 50, a loss of more than 95 percent. The X chromosome, in contrast, stands strong at roughly 1,000 genes.

>> No.8699907

>>8699851
You can't really predict anything like that since human evolution is so different.

>> No.8699917

>>8699903
people will obviously still have sex.
but why play the lottery with the genes of your child?
that would just be unethical.

>> No.8699918

>>8699899
>>8699903
more likely scenario is everyone just has sex with physically ideal robots and/or VR machines, and the companies that make them collect the sperm and have scientists in charge of deciding which ones are used

>> No.8699922

>>8699906

>a single meme scientists "speculation" regarding our biological destiny over the next 5 million damn years

it's nothing

>> No.8699942

>>8699851
Fake news since 2005.
jenny a. marshall graves research on chimpanzees genetic found Y chromosome is shirking, media say end of men.

>> No.8699970

>>8699851
Have you "looked" away from your phone long enough to see all the cowardly she-males. When the ship sinks they dress up as girls to get off before ALL the other guys and will even get on before little boys because they'll squeal. They have no shame. Nothing is too dirty for them, which these guys have long ago proven.

>> No.8699975

>>8699867
If there is one thing on which you'd have to be brain dead to think Trump is wrong, it's the media.

>> No.8700018

>>8699906
It can't be this retarded, can it?

>> No.8700196

>>8699851

The human Y chromosome is similar in content to the Rhesus monkey Y chromosome, which we diverged from over tens of millions of years ago. The Y chromosome will not degrade much any time soon.

>> No.8700632

>>8699867
Trump is right even reddit agreed -- before trump said it that is, there's been a huge pro media shift on reddit since Trump

I fucking hate redditors