Adams curse : a future without men

Sykes, Bryan.

Book 2005

The inside story of the Y chromosome's fatal flaw, as told by one of the world's leading geneticists. By the nationally best-selling author of The Seven Daughters of Eve, Adam's Curse investigates the ultimate evolutionary crisis: a man-free future. How is it possible that the Y chromosome, which separated the sexes and allowed humans to rise to the apex of the animal kingdom, also threatens to destroy sexual reproduction altogether? Bryan Sykes...

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ISBN:

9780393326802

Edition:

Reprint

Description:

x, 320 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Notes:

Originally published: London : Bantam Press, 2003
Originally published as a Norton paperback 2005
Includes index

Contents:

The original Mr Sykes
The lonely chromosome
Ribbons of life
The last embrace
Sex and the single chromosome
How to make a man
Sex tips from fish
Why bother with sex?
The ideal republic
The sense of sex
The separation of the sexes
A war on two fronts
A rage to persuade
Men of the world
Blood of the Vikings
The Y-chromosome of Somhairle Mor
The great Khan
The old school register
The eleven daughters of Tracy Lewis
The slaughter of the innocents
The rise of the tyrant
The sperm of Tara
The gay gene revisited
Gaia's revenge
Lifting the curse

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326399

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