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Save the male: his days are numbered
By Judy Skatssoon
October 13, 2003
WOMEN have just 125,000 years to learn how to change a tyre and assemble furniture - because that's when the last bloke will disappear from earth, according to a new book.
Bryan Sykes, professor of human genetics at Oxford University, has caused a stir with his book Adam's Curse: A Future Without Men.
In Australia to launch the book here today, Professor Sykes said the male of the species would only last for another 5000 generations before dwindling fertility and a decrepit Y-chromosome consigned him to the history books along with neanderthals and trilobites.
Women, on the other hand, could look forward to plum jobs, tax-deductible child care, clean bathrooms and global peace.
"This . . . is a look into the future at how the Y chromosome will deteriorate, and I think it certainly will," he said.
"The time scale is debatable but I think it is inevitable.
"I predict the Y chromosome will be so damaged by that time that males will only be 1 per cent as fertile as they are now."
The Y-chromosome, which carries the genetic switch to turn babies into boys at six weeks of gestation, is doomed, Professor Sykes argues.
"The Y chromosome is a genetic ruin, littered with molecular wreckage . . . a graveyard of rotting genes," he writes.
"It is a dying chromosome and one day it will become extinct."
Professor Sykes said men could be rescued with "massive intervention" but it would be quite possible to survive without them.
Herald Sun