| Author | Brian Sykes |
|---|---|
Publication date | 2004 |
| ISBN | 978-0-393-05896-3 |
Adam's Curse: A Future Without Men (also known asAdam's Curse: A Story of Sex, Genetics, and the Extinction of Men) is a 2003 book byOxford University humangenetics professorBryan Sykes expounding his hypothesis that with the decliningsperm count in men and the continual atrophy of theY chromosome, within 5,000 generations (approximately 125,000 years) men shall become extinct.
Sykes thinks one of the options for humanity's survival is unisex reproduction by females: female eggs fertilised by the nuclearX chromosomes of another female and implanted usingin vitro fertilisation methods. He also introduces the possibility of moving theSRY and associated genes responsible for maleness and male fertility to another chromosome, which he refers to as "the Adonis chromosome", engendering fertile males with an XXkaryotype.
BBC News reported in 2012 that a US study in Nature suggests the genetic decay has all but ended and that "The conclusion from these comparative studies is that genetic decay has in recent history been minimal, with the human chromosome having lost no further genes in the last six million years, and only one in the last 25 million years."[1]
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