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Originally posted by basicposter
I think you are assuming reproduction would be possible.
Frailty, thy name is man.
From his shorter life span and iffy sperm counts to his dubious Y chromosome and eroding social stature, the male is "wilting away," claims British geneticist and popular-science author Steve Jones.
In fact, says Jones, the male of the species -- or at least his defining chromosome -- could slide into oblivion in a mere 10 million years.
He holds to that position, he said in a phone interview, despite some promising news last month about the Y chromosome's possible resiliency.
Jones, a snail biologist and genetics professor at University College in London, explores the past, present and future of males in a provocative book, "Y: The Descent of Men" (Houghton Mifflin, 252 pages, $25). The title is a riff on Charles Darwin's 1871 "The Descent of Man."
Jones' predictions are momentous, but the tone of his book is witty and insouciant, as if he personally isn't losing sleep over what may be wrought in upcoming millions of years.
Originally posted by sphinx551
Imagine two hypothetical situations:
Earth A = All men suddenly disappeared and are gone.
Earth B = All women suddenly disappeared and are gone.
Originally posted by tim1989
The video above sums it up quite nicely.
We don't need women, however they need us.