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Although the board does need some humor injected sometimes.

Actually Yourdon is a three-time loser as far as writing "doom" books, check it out.

-ax

...was hilarious and waaaay overdone. They literally had people taking all of their money out of the banks and buying canned goods as if there was going to be a nuclear fallout. People with bad credit were rejoicing everywhere as they thought the slate would be wiped clean.

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I read "The Decline of Males" and didn't see any discussion of males dropping off the human radar from him for evolutionary reasons. He is an anthropologist, not a biologist, though his school of thought stresses that biological necessity is what primarily drives anthropological trends. (It's the sort of matter that is doomed to be debated endlessly.) In any case, yes, I would like it if someone could actually find such a reference to such an idea in that book, because I don't have one and I suspect there isn't one there.

There probably isn't a reference to an explicit biological mechanism in that book (I'll need to check). It's partly a question of interpretation. Also, a physician friend of Tiger once told me that Tiger believed that "the decline of males" has its origin in biology and cannot be adequately explained by social processes. Perhaps I can locate more precise references.

...when they were forced--by science--to acknowledge their incorrect hypothesis and the Y was shown to be self-sufficient as opposed to the X which MUST swap genetic material with another X? Or when the evidence was in that the very ORIGIN of males and females rests within the male genome? Or when the MtDNA was shown to be transferable to men via the father--even though the Y cannot be transferred by women to the daughter--which damn near destroyed their mitochondrial Eve theory(which was never conducted correctly anyway which was why it was off)?

I would love to have seen the looks on their faces. Probably priceless. That's what you get when you deal with feminazi-motivated JUNK SCIENCE.

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Before Y-chromosome:
Many ectothermic vertebrates have no sex chromosomes. If they have different sexes, sex is determined environmentally rather than genetically. For some of them, especially reptiles, sex depends on the incubation temperature, others are hermaphroditic.

Origin:
The X and Y chromosomes diverged around 300 million years ago from a pair of identical chromosomes[1], termed autosomes, when an ancestral mammal developed an allelic variation, a so-called 'sex locus' - simply possessing this allele caused the organism to be male[2] The chromosome with this allele became the Y chromosome, while the other member of the pair became the X chromosome. Over time, genes which were beneficial for males and harmful to (or had no effect on) females either developed on the Y chromosome, or were acquired through the process of translocation.[3]

Recombination inhibition:
Recombination between the X and Y chromosomes proved harmful - it resulted in males without necessary genes formerly found on the X chromosome, and females with unnecessary or even harmful genes previously only found on the Y chromosome. As a result, genes beneficial to males accumulated near the sex-determining genes, and recombination in this region was suppressed in order to preserve this male specific region[4]. Over time, the Y chromosome changed in such a way as to inhibit the areas around the sex determining genes from recombining at all with the X chromosome. As a result of this process 95% of the human Y chromosome is unable to recombine.

Shrinking:
With time, larger and larger areas became unable to recombine with the X chromosome. This caused its own problems: without recombination, the removal of harmful mutations from chromosomes becomes increasingly difficult. These harmful mutations continued to damage Y-unique genes until several finally stopped functioning and became genetic junk; this was eventually removed from the Y chromosome.

Today, the human Y chromosome itself contains only 86 working genes;[5] compare this to close to 1000 working genes on the X chromosome. In some animals, Y degradation is even more severe. The 10-12 Mb dunnart Y chromosome, with only four characterised genes; among them the SRY gene, is the smallest known mammalian Y chromosome. [6]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y_chromosome