Y Chromosome Wins Again!

A friend of mine sent me this article about how two scientists (male and female) have found that the Y chromosome is evolving faster than any other part of the human genetic code.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34843925/ns/health-mens_health

This is apparently a big shock to the science community (or to no one). Supposedly, previous research suggested that the Y chromosome was shrinking and would die off in 50,000 years. One particular quote that struck me as odd, however, was, "It's kind of fun to say that men are going to die out, but the science is proving — now that we've got data — that that's not true at all." This was spoken by Dr. Hughes (the female scientist) and was said right before she made out with a female colleague.*

Since when is it fun to suggest that men might die out? It is posteriors to suggest that a world might be better off with out men. All food would have to be hunted/picked the day it was used because without men, who is going to open the jars of food? The technology industry would die out in less than 10 years. With no guys around there would be no one to hook up a new TV or plug in a new computer. In this 'fun' world of Dr. Hughes, who is going to make sure that awesome things like football, arm wrestling and scotch drinking continues? I posit that a world with out men is a dark, depressing world.

*The article doesn't exactly say that she made out with her female colleague but I one of those people who can read between the lines

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