Adam's Curse
Adam's Curse is a book by Oxford University human genetics professor Bryan Sykes expounding his hypothesis that with the declining sperm count in men and the continual atrophy of the Y chromosome, within 5,000 generations (approximately 125,000 years), the male of the human species will become extinct.
Sykes believes one of the options for the survival of humanity is unisex reproduction by females: female eggs fertilised by the nuclear X chromosomes of another female and implanted using in vitro fertilisation (IVF) methods.
See also: Sex-determination system, Y-chromosomal Adam
Reference
- Sykes, Bryan (2003). Adam's Curse: A Story of Sex, Genetics, and the Extinction of Men. London: Bantam Press. ISBN 0-593-05004-5
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Referenced By
Y-chromosomal Adam | Y-chromosome Adam
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