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News and Events => Opinions & Editorials => Topic started by: Natasha on May 14, 2008, 05:54:45 PM

Title: The 'devolving' of the Y chromosome (blog/commentary)
Post by: Natasha on May 14, 2008, 05:54:45 PM
The 'devolving' of the Y chromosome

Link (http://www.fdlreporter.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080514/FON04/805140781/1329/FONlife)
5/14/2008

"Even British geneticist Steve Jones is suggesting that the Y chromosome is devolving — turning men into what has been labeled the "second sex." In his book "Y: The Descent of Men," Jones suggests that maleness itself is under threat — sperm counts are falling, fish are changing sex and scientists are publishing worried papers on the feminization of nature."