{"id":239091,"date":"2026-06-16T19:05:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T00:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/men-can-lose-their-y-chromosome-with-age-and-we-finally-know-the-cost"},"modified":"2026-06-16T19:05:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T00:05:33","slug":"men-can-lose-their-y-chromosome-with-age-and-we-finally-know-the-cost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/men-can-lose-their-y-chromosome-with-age-and-we-finally-know-the-cost","title":{"rendered":"Men Can Lose Their Y Chromosome With Age, And We Finally Know The Cost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/men-can-lose-their-y-chromosome-with-age-and-we-finally-know-the-cost.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The human Y chromosome is shrinking.<\/p>\n<p>In the next 5 million years or so, some geneticists think <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/is-the-y-chromosome-vanishing-a-new-sex-gene-may-be-the-future-of-men\">the sex-determining chromosome<\/a> will vanish completely from our species.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, we have a bigger concern at hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The human Y chromosome is shrinking. In the next 5 million years or so, some geneticists think the sex-determining chromosome will vanish completely from our species. In the meantime, we have a bigger concern at hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412,1901],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239091","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}