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Y change?

The Y chromosome, found only in men, is more prone to change than the X, but it is not as mutable as biologists have been assuming for more than half a century Ñ a finding with implications for both medicine and human evolution, says Henry Gee.

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Gee, H. Y change?. Nature (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/news000810-9

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