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A World without Men? The Disappearance of the Y Chromosome

The human Y chromosome, which determines male sex, is slowly disappearing, potentially spelling extinction for humans unless a new sex-determining gene evolves.

But there's hope, as some rodents have already lost their Y chromosomes and found alternative ways to survive.

The Y chromosome contains the SRY gene, which initiates male development in human embryos. However, over millions of years, the Y has been shedding genes. If this trend continues, the last of its remaining 55 genes could vanish in 11 million years.

Rodents like mole voles in Eastern Europe and spiny rats in Japan have lost their Y chromosomes entirely, yet they continue to reproduce. In spiny rats, researchers identified a new sex-determining gene near SOX9 on chromosome 3, which appears to have replaced SRY.

This discovery provides optimism that humans could also evolve a new sex-determining gene. However, this evolutionary process comes with risks. If different sex-determining systems evolve in separate populations, it could lead to reproductive isolation and the emergence of new human species.

In 11 million years, visitors to Earth might find no humans at all — or a world inhabited by multiple human species, each with its own unique way of determining sex.

Culled from Hashem Al-Ghaili (https://www.facebook.com/ScienceNaturePage?mibextid=ZbWKwL)

Learn more: https://theconversation.com/sex-genes-the-y-chromosome-and-the-future-of-men-32893

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“Some people have been hurt in their past. So don’t just tell them you love them, show them why they should believe.”

— Charles Orlando

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"The future has borrowed my eyes, the present my legs, and the past my back."

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"Prefer boredom than toxic relationship. Desire alienation or an inward self-exile than disrespect and self-mutaliation of your will and self-esteem because a relationship offers you only a horrible knife of constant pain and emotional torture that continually self-sabotage you."

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There is no nobility in dying for a state that wants your sacrifice in order to keep itself strong for the good of itself and not for its people.

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“We are all the family of earth

They have taken us away

In their new, clear war

Taught us to compete and abuse

And blame each other

While we're all being used…”

~John Trudell

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I love you like the sun loves the day, the stars the night, the land the sea, the wind the sky, the trees the rain, the moon its goddess. I want to say no more. Look for me in the pathways of your dreams, in the narrows of your soul, where hope resides. I will be there. And I will be waiting for you.

Lakis Fourouklas

From my novella A Eulogy for Love

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There are nostalgic memories that had become cruel to entertain. It is not because they're bad but because we can no longer have them.

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The fool's belly is uneasily filled what is stolen but which also belongs to him.

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I know every generation thinks they are the last but :looks around:

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In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

~Alice Walker

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"Be so rooted in yourself that nobody's absence or presence could disturb your inner peace."

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"If you have a bread and I have a euro, and I use my euro to buy your bread, at the end of the exchange I will have the bread and you the euro. Seems like a perfect balance, doesn't it? A has a euro, B has a bread, then, A has the bread and B the euro. It's a fair transaction, but merely material.

Now, imagine you have a Verlaine sonnet or you know Pythagoras theorem, and I have nothing. If you teach me, at the end of this exchange, I'll have learned the sonnet and theorem, but you'll still have them too. In this case, there's not only balance, but growth.

First we had a commerce second we shared knowledge. And while goods are consumed, culture expands infinitely. ”

-Michel Serres, French philosopher

(1/09/1930 - 1/06/2019)

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I want to believe death is only a pause / in our continuous language.

Sara Daniele Rivera, from The Blue Mimes; "Sol"

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Hi! Can you do words to use instead “shook their head” or ways to avoid overusing it?

Shake One's Head - to turn one's head from side to side as a way of answering "no" or of showing disagreement or refusal

Abjure - to reject solemnly

Balk - to refuse abruptly—used with at

Decline - to refuse especially courteously

Deny - to be unwilling to grant

Deselect - dismiss, reject

Disallow - to refuse to allow

Disapprove - to express disapproval; reject

Dismiss - to reject serious consideration of (something or someone)

Pass up - decline, reject

Refuse - to be unwilling to grant

Reject - to refuse to accept, consider, submit to, take for some purpose, or use

Repudiate - to refuse to accept

Spurn - to reject with disdain or contempt

Turn down - to decline to accept

Turn one's back on - reject, deny

Hope you find the right word alternative/s here for your writing!

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Reality has taken sides. We're defiantly on the side of its sighs