{"id":152423,"date":"2022-12-10T15:28:11","date_gmt":"2022-12-10T21:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/men-are-losing-their-y-chromosome-and-rats-could-show-our-future"},"modified":"2022-12-10T15:28:11","modified_gmt":"2022-12-10T21:28:11","slug":"men-are-losing-their-y-chromosome-and-rats-could-show-our-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/men-are-losing-their-y-chromosome-and-rats-could-show-our-future","title":{"rendered":"Men are losing their Y chromosome, and rats could show our future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/men-are-losing-their-y-chromosome-and-rats-could-show-our-future2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What alternative sex-determining system will we adapt?<\/p>\n<p>The sex of human and other mammal babies is decided by a male-determining gene on the Y chromosome. But the human Y chromosome is degenerating and may disappear in a few million years, leading to our extinction unless we evolve a new sex gene.<\/p>\n<p>A new paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science shows how the spiny rat has evolved a new male-determining gene.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Usis\/iStock.<\/p>\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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What alternative sex-determining system will we adapt? The sex of human and other mammal babies is decided by a male-determining gene on the Y chromosome. But the human Y chromosome is degenerating and may disappear in a few million years, leading to our extinction unless we evolve a new sex gene. A new paper in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1901],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-existential-risks","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}