Saturday, March 3, 2012
Y Chromosome Not Going Extinct
Researchers studying rhesus macaques have found the male Y chromosome still contains 20 out of 800 genes that match the X chromosome, with 19 of these shared with humans, indicating the Y chromosome has held steady for at least 25 million years and is not bound for extinction, as predicted by some evolutionary theories.
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