# New species of human evolving - Mayl branch off from Homo Sapiens **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 10, 2006, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-species-of-human-evolving-mayl-branch-off-from-homo-sapiens/368108 "2006-08-10T03:17:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2006, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-species-of-human-evolving-mayl-branch-off-from-homo-sapiens/368108/1 "2006-08-10T03:17:35Z")
[Death of Y may spawn new human species](http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200608/s1711506.htm) > [@](#): > > The pending demise of the Y chromosome could give rise to a whole new species of human, a professor of comparative genomics says ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2006, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-species-of-human-evolving-mayl-branch-off-from-homo-sapiens/368108/2 "2006-08-10T03:33:29Z")
Bump this thread in about 15 million years… ---
**Author:** ![Pixiesnix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/898d66/32.png) [@Pixiesnix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixiesnix)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2006, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-species-of-human-evolving-mayl-branch-off-from-homo-sapiens/368108/3 "2006-08-10T04:34:23Z")
Stan Lee was right, the mutant invasion is upon us! Hopefully they’ll have cool superpowers. ---
**Author:** ![Dervorin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Dervorin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dervorin)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2006, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-species-of-human-evolving-mayl-branch-off-from-homo-sapiens/368108/4 "2006-08-10T05:42:06Z")
> [@Uncommon Sense](#): > > Bump this thread in about 15 million years… And see it locked by a mod for being a zombie in… oh, about 15 miliseconds. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2006, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-species-of-human-evolving-mayl-branch-off-from-homo-sapiens/368108/5 "2006-08-10T05:50:33Z")
Locked by a _mutant_ mod. 😉 Personally, I welcome our new mutant, cool-power-having Overlords. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2006, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-species-of-human-evolving-mayl-branch-off-from-homo-sapiens/368108/6 "2006-08-10T08:32:22Z")
As I understand it, the Y chromosome is being constantly replaced anyway. The X chromosomes evolve a means of suppressing it, more and more females are born, then a mutant Y appears that happens to be immune to whatever Y suppression technique has been evolved by the Xs. Since the male(s) bearing that mutation are the only ones who can breed with the “Y - proof” females, their version of the Y rapidly takes over the species. Then, some millenia later ( or more ) it happens all over again. I assume it could happen that a “Y - less” male as mentioned in the article could do the same, but I expect the odds are low simply because there are so few of them. It seems more likely to me than some man _with_ a Y will happen to have the right mutation first, due to sheer numbers.