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But not for much longer, it seems, if Sykes's radical solution is adopted — abandon men altogether. Chillingly, he states: "From the genetic point of view, very little stands in its way."

His strategy for perpetuating a new female race, free of their aggressive mates, depends on tweaking the proven technique of injecting sperm into eggs. Instead, the nucleus from a second egg would be injected.

With present technology, the embryo would not develop normally, he admits. "But it is short-sighted to say that it is fundamentally impossible."

However, assuming this glitch is overcome, the only difference from any other birth would be that the baby would always be a girl. "The entire process has been accomplished without sperm, without Y-chromosomes and without men," Sykes exults.

Importantly, the girls would not be clones, but comprise the same mixture of their parents' genes, shuffled by recombination, as today's children. But there would be one other difference: both parents would be women.

"Lesbian couples already enlist the help of' a man to donate his set of chromosomes to fertilize the eggs of one of them. At some point these couples will want to have a baby to whom both, rather than just one of them, are parents."

It is almost bound to happen, says Sykes, who can find no moral objection. "Men are now on notice," he states.

The professor does not venture what would pass for sex once men disappeared entirely. All reproduction would need to be assisted genetically.