It’s scientifically official: We still need men

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

It’s scientifically official: We still need men (whew)

January 10, 2014, 10:39 AM

It’s science Friday, and the big news is that the male sex is not about to be phased out.

While that may be bad news to a select few out there, the majority of us will be relieved. In a paper entitled, “Natural selection reduced diversity on human Y chromosomes,” researchers over at the University of Wisconsin-Madison delved into the notion that maybe no one really needs the Y chromosome.

For those of you (including this reporter) who need a refresher on why the Y is so important: Each person has one pair of sex chromosomes in each cell. Males have one X and one Y chromosome, and females have two X’s. Last month, some researchers reported they had shuffled around genes in mice to create Y-less males that could produce normal offspring, leading some commentators to wonder whether the chromosome is superfluous.

Reading this research paper could give you an enormous headache, so we turn to Science News for a breakdown of what Melissa A. Wilson Sayres, Kirk E. Lohmueller and Rasmus Nielsen are telling us.

“The Y chromosome has lost 90% of the genes it once shared with the X chromosome, and some scientists speculated that the Y chromosome will disappear in less than 5 million years,” said Wilson Sayres, evolutionary biologist and a lead author on the paper. “Our study demonstrates that the genes that have been maintained, and those that migrated from the X to the Y are important, and the human Y is going to stick around for a long while.”

And the paper says the Y chromosome is so small — with just 27 unique genes where others have thousands — it means it’s lean and mean, or rather, stripped down to just what’s required. The Y has been on the decline for the past 200 million years.

“Melissa’s results are quite stunning,” Nielson told Science Daily. “They show that because there is so much natural selection working on the Y chromosome, there has to be a lot more function on the chromosome than people previously thought.”

[GandD 5,966]

Woot

Suck it feminasties.

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

Propaganda.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Propaganda.

No, it's science.

[Pooky 3,840]

Ah, but PIV sex is always rape, OK?

http://witchwind.wordpress.com/2013/12/15/piv-is-always-rape-ok/

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

No, it's science.

Science has more equations in it. Also explosions sometimes.

[GandD 5,966]

Ah, but PIV sex is always rape, OK?

http://witchwind.wordpress.com/2013/12/15/piv-is-always-rape-ok/

Wow, those women must be really ugly and fat.

[Pooky 3,840]

Wow, those women must be really ugly and fat.

Don't click on any of the links at the side of that page. This piece isn't the most "out there" thing she has written.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Wow, those women must be really ugly and fat.

Time for the shipping container again?

[GandD 5,966]

Time for the shipping container again?

I dunno, that amount of hate tells me it's a fat and ugly I've never experienced before. We may need that setup they used on the boat in Jurassic park 2 Edited January 11, 2014 by GandD

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

Time out (real feelings here):

I just read (by read, I mean skimmed) that post and as a person who has been affected by sexual violence, that's really f^cking insulting to women who actually HAVE been raped. I think I know what I'm consenting to when I have sex, and to proclaim that women can't consent to ####### in ####### sex ever is to assume that the majority of heterosexual women are idiots, brainwashed by men (and apparently us middle-class women are the biggest morons of them all).

[DavenRoxy 1,073]

Time out (real feelings here):

I just read (by read, I mean skimmed) that post and as a person who has been affected by sexual violence, that's really f^cking insulting to women who actually HAVE been raped. I think I know what I'm consenting to when I have sex, and to proclaim that women can't consent to ####### in ####### sex ever is to assume that the majority of heterosexual women are idiots, brainwashed by men (and apparently us middle-class women are the biggest morons of them all).

Me too on the skim... My first thought is that she has never had an orgasm in her life, or was raped early on and hates sex now because of it. Either way, that woman has a LOT of hatred inside her. She has got to be miserable every day...