Men And Women May Not Communicate But Our X And Y Chromosomes Do
Thursday, September 10, 2009 - 09:42
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Today is the 25th anniversary of the discovery of DNA fingerprinting. So has it done anything important, like given us a real understanding of how men and women communicate? Well, no, but the University of Leicester Department of Genetics has revealed males and females at least communicate on the fundamental genetic level, an idea which counters scientific theory that the X and Y chromosomes - those that define the sexes - do not communicate at all. In research published in the American Journal of Human Genetics, Zoë Rosser and colleagues say they have shown that exchange of DNA does occur between the X and Y in the regions previously thought to be completely isolated. read more