BioNews - Men might escape extinction according to monkey Y chromosome study: Previous research has suggested that the Y sex chromosome, carried only by men, is decaying genetically at such a rate that men would become extinct in five million years' time. However the study, carried out by Dr Jennifer Hughes and her team at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Massachusetts in the US, suggests that the Y chromosome may not vanish after all.
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