{"id":75537,"date":"2018-01-24T12:02:52","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T20:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/the-male-y-chromosome-is-slowly-fading-and-could-disappear-completely"},"modified":"2018-01-24T12:02:52","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T20:02:52","slug":"the-male-y-chromosome-is-slowly-fading-and-could-disappear-completely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/the-male-y-chromosome-is-slowly-fading-and-could-disappear-completely","title":{"rendered":"The male Y chromosome is slowly fading, and could disappear completely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><video width=\"636\" height=\"358\" controls><source src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-male-y-chromosome-is-slowly-fading-and-could-disappear-completely.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"><\/video><\/p>\n<p>The end of men? Experts reveal how the male sex chromosome could one day disappear completely.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Since the dawn of humanity, men have played a vital role in determining the sex of their offspring.<\/p>\n<p>The Y chromosome, carried by roughly half of a man\u2019s sperm, dictates whether a child will be male or female.<\/p>\n<p>If the Y chromosome is present, a child will develop into a boy, whereas a lack of this strand of DNA will result in a girl.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-5302565\/The-Y-chromosome-going-happen-men.html\">http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-5302565\/The-Y...n-men.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The end of men? Experts reveal how the male sex chromosome could one day disappear completely. Since the dawn of humanity, men have played a vital role in determining the sex of their offspring. The Y chromosome, carried by roughly half of a man\u2019s sperm, dictates whether a child will be male or female. If [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":440,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1901],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75537","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\/440"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}