Tag: chromosomes

Science: Women holding up the evolution train

Are you glad you don’t have a tail to sit on right now? Thank your male ancestors. That’s right, the dudes–the original ones.

Science has found, startlingly, that the Y chromosome that makes guys guys may in fact evolve faster than the X chromosome, which is what makes guys cry for sports-related tragedies. The Y chromosome is actually continually renewing itself. This means that guys are evolving faster.

In fact, you know how humans and chimpanzees have less than one percent difference in DNA? (We don’t like it any more than you do.) Well our Y chromosomes are 30 percent different from theirs. So guys are more different from chimps than women.

Men: Proudly working to grow wings for mankind since about six million years ago.

SG not responsible for irrepressable manliness, hangovers

This is how The Guys stay in blogging shape.

According to researchers, exercise may keep you young at a molecular level. They believe that exercise keeps telomeres, which are essentially aglets on the shoelaces of your DNA strands, long enough to prevent fraying and cell death (their analogy).

In fact, active test subjects were cellularly on par with inactive people 10 years younger.

So, if you’re 16 and trying to buy beer, for the love of God, don’t exercise. Avoid stairs, sleep in front of the fridge and brush your teeth with Cheez-Whiz (and don’t spit afterwards). Your only mission in life is to sit absolutely still while growing an almost perceptible mustache.