{"id":165379,"date":"2023-06-08T15:23:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T20:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/the-y-chromosome-is-vanishing-a-new-sex-gene-could-be-the-future-of-men"},"modified":"2023-06-08T15:23:01","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T20:23:01","slug":"the-y-chromosome-is-vanishing-a-new-sex-gene-could-be-the-future-of-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/the-y-chromosome-is-vanishing-a-new-sex-gene-could-be-the-future-of-men","title":{"rendered":"The Y Chromosome Is Vanishing. A New Sex Gene Could Be The Future of Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-y-chromosome-is-vanishing-a-new-sex-gene-could-be-the-future-of-men2.jpg\"><\/a><\/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 <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/sex-genes-the-y-chromosome-and-the-future-of-men-32893\">Y chromosome is degenerating<\/a> and may disappear in a few million years, leading to our extinction unless we evolve a new sex gene.<\/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<p>A recent paper in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.2211574119\">Proceedings of the National Academy of Science<\/a><\/em> shows how the spiny rat has evolved a new male-determining gene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<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. The good news is two branches of rodents have already lost [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1901],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165379","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\/165379","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}