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Jenny Graves

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BBC

Science, Technology

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2013

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Australian geneticist Jenny Graves discusses her life pursuing sex genes in her country's weird but wonderful fauna, the end of men and singing to her students in lectures.

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Men could be on the road to extinction.

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This is one of the arguments of my guest today Jenny Graves, one of Australia's leading geneticists,

1:35.6

and she says, although this apocalyptic event may be a long way off,

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