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It's pure coincidence
It's pure coincidence
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It's because more information is encoded on the X chromosome then the Y, having two copies of the X chromosome makes it less likely for a mutation in that chromosome to cause cancer because there's another non-defective copy to potentially diminish the mutation's effect.
However stupid shit like that probably sways the needle as well.
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The Y chromosome is also deteriorating over time as it gets passed down with errors and doesn’t have a backup copy nor relevant genes to swap with, and men have less robust immune systems (iirc partially because of testosterone). So that’s fun.
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To call the natural process of mutation, literally one of the requirements for any genetic evolutionary progress, "deteriorating" is, at best, short sighted. Most mutations do nothing, most of the ones that do something don't occur in the one sperm that makes it into the ovum, and most of those that do something and make it into the ovum cause an early termination before birth. Some of those that get through all of these hurdles are the ones that cause random genetic variation and increased diversity, without which we actually DO get things like Hemophilia or other sex-linked issues going rampant in any given gene pool. Evolution takes a LONG time to work, but it requires wet and moldable clay to sculpt.
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But did he succeeded? I have to know! What is the end of the story???
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It’s Top Gear, so it failed spectacularly.
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On that terrible disappointment
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So it's not coming on then?
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peak british comedy
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Ambitious but rubbish
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And on that terrible disappointment...
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It was sadly not dry enough.
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Nah, it was damp.
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"I've broken Stalin's house... I'm going to the Gulags"
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Yeah that thing with the lighter was never gonna do anything, but I'll bet it sounded exciting in the commercials. I wouldn't know, I haven't had TV in like 8 years.
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Ha ha. But seriously men's lives are just worth less than women's so society as a whole spends them much more lightly.
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I guess in the sense that men are the default for people sent into war while women very rare are. Dunno what other examples there are
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Are you saying that society treats them as worth less or that you believe they're worth less?
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