8.25.2003



a world without men.

but do i really have to wait that long?

here's an excerpt from the article:

August 24, 2003 -- Bad news, guys. Your kind has just 125,000 years to live.
That's the dire prediction of a British academic who argues a female-only world is a distinct possibility.

While urban men are increasingly being classified as feminized "metrosexuals" - happy to be high-maintenance, manicured fellows who worry about their hair - that's not the reason men face extinction, the scientist says.

Man's demise will be caused by science - genetics, to be specific.

The problem is that the Y chromosome - the one that makes a baby a male - is "decaying" at an alarming rate, says Bryan Sykes, professor of human genetics at Oxford University.

Unlike the female X chromosome, which has a "twin" and can repair itself and minimize bad mutations, the male's solo Y chromosome keeps accumulating problems as it advances through evolution, Sykes contends in his new book, "Adam's Curse."

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