Chimp and human Y chromosomes evolving faster than expected

Wednesday, January 13, 2010 - 13:21 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Contrary to a widely held scientific theory that the mammalian Y chromosome is slowly decaying or stagnating, new evidence suggests that in fact the Y is actually evolving quite rapidly through continuous, wholesale renovation.

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