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Sykes contends that a world without men is the logical consequence of the decaying human Y-chromosome, the only piece of DNA that men possess and women do not.

A "genetic ruin littered with molecular damage", the Y-chromosome cannot repair ; itself nor arrest the steadily accumulating damage, he reports bleakly in Adam's Curse.

"Like the face of the moon, still pitted by all the craters from all the meteors that have ever fallen onto its surface, Y-chromosomes cannot heal their own scars. It is a dying chromosome and one day it a will become extinct."

So far, so bad. The decline of the Y-chromosome has been well chronicled by scientists. What is new is Sykes's description of the implications and the stark choices to be faced by the human race.

Sykes is a leading authority on DNA who traced all humans through female genes to a few ancestral women living thousands of years ago. He says that because the Y-chromosome's main function is switching on male embryos in the womb, its demise spells curtains for men. By his estimate, the male of the species will go belly-up in about 125,000 years.

What seems like an eternity is, of course, only a blink of geological time. There are urgent matters to consider. Sykes voices the most burning one: "Do we need men? Can we do without them?"

He cautions ultra-feminists against rejoicing too soon. "Destroying the male sex would be a very short-lived victory. Men are still required for breeding, if nothing else."