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Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Health My Namesake Is Declaring That Men Could Become Extinct

Posted by Jen Graves on Wed, May 20, 2009 at 11:12 AM

Very interesting, Professor Jennifer Graves.

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What? Do they really think that we'll last another 5 million years? I would guess that we'll all be extinct by then ...

Posted by Take it all in on May 20, 2009 at 11:23 AM

This assumes that no advances are made in reading and, more importantly, writing DNA and RNA between now and T+5,000,000.

Posted by Greg on May 20, 2009 at 11:27 AM

Of course they could. They are younger, evolutionarily, than "females."

Posted by Andy Niable on May 20, 2009 at 11:28 AM

"a second species of human beings could even be born in the future"

lol?

Posted by w7ngman

on May 20, 2009 at 11:42 AM

The amount of genetic variation between men and women as a whole is less than the difference between any two non-related individual humans.

But then chr24, chr25, and chr26 are not as "fixed" as you seem to think they are.

Posted by Will in Seattle

on May 20, 2009 at 11:56 AM

we already are extinct. We are all zombies, and we've come to eat your BRAINS!

Or your leftover pizza, if you have any. Mind if I check the fridge?

Posted by wilbur@work on May 20, 2009 at 11:56 AM

If men become extinct, who's gonna take out the trash?

Posted by Betsy Ross on May 20, 2009 at 11:58 AM

Or do the yard work.

Posted by Will in Seattle

on May 20, 2009 at 12:17 PM

#7, there won't BE any trash to take out!

Posted by w7ngman

on May 20, 2009 at 12:40 PM

the male Y chromosome was dying and could run out within the next five million years

Man, I want to be around in like 4.5 million years!

Posted by Last Man Standing on May 20, 2009 at 2:17 PM

By the way Jen, I saw you at the Gong show and I have to compliment you on your glasses. You're naturally very pretty and your glasses are perfect for your face.

Posted by blank12357 on May 20, 2009 at 2:25 PM

Not as long as we keep fucking each other. and with medical tech keeping more and more of us alive and more and more of us breeding, the gene pool is actually expanding, not contracting. Men won't/can't go extinct in the current modern world breeding. If trends over the last 30,000 years continued, sure, but we have demonstrated we don't give a fuck what nature would direct. Much like the next 5 million. Any prediction would be just as good.

Posted by MR. Language Person on May 20, 2009 at 2:39 PM