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Letter: We may not be around to see Y chromosome vanish

Published 28 December 2022

From Michael Zehse, London, UK

You report claims that the human Y chromosome will eventually be lost, in around 10 million years. It sounds very optimistic to imagine that humans will still be around so many years into the future(3 December, p 10).

Issue no. 3419 published 28 December 2022

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