{"id":12382,"date":"2022-12-12T13:07:31","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T20:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=12382"},"modified":"2023-01-27T16:15:51","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T23:15:51","slug":"no-more-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2022\/12\/12\/no-more-men\/","title":{"rendered":"No More Men"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/studyfinds.org\/men-losing-y-chromosome-gene-discovery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from Study Finds<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Men are slowly losing their Y chromosome, but new sex gene discovery in spiny rats brings hope for&nbsp;humanity<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>By&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/profiles\/jenny-graves-91614\" target=\"_blank\">Jenny Graves<\/a>,&nbsp;<em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/institutions\/la-trobe-university-842\" target=\"_blank\">La Trobe University<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why Y Chromosomes Might Disappear\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/of7vrIIcTa0?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The sex of human and other mammal babies is decided by a male-determining gene on the Y chromosome. But the human&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/sex-genes-the-y-chromosome-and-the-future-of-men-32893\" target=\"_blank\">Y chromosome is degenerating<\/a>&nbsp;and may disappear in a few million years, leading to our extinction unless we evolve a new sex gene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The good news is two branches of rodents have already lost their Y chromosome and have lived to tell the tale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A new paper in&nbsp;<em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.2211574119\" target=\"_blank\">Proceedings of the National Academy of Science<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;shows how the spiny rat has evolved a new male-determining gene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/studyfinds.org\/men-losing-y-chromosome-gene-discovery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at Study Finds<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Study Finds Men are slowly losing their Y chromosome, but new sex gene discovery in spiny rats brings hope for&nbsp;humanity By&nbsp;Jenny Graves,&nbsp;La Trobe University The sex of human and other mammal babies is decided by a male-determining gene on the Y chromosome. But the human&nbsp;Y chromosome is degenerating&nbsp;and may disappear in a few million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}