Better start perfecting that 99-slap-one-kiss regimen all over again, Pagli. Uglys are going to be around for another 300 million years for you to torment.

Men are in no danger of extinction from a dying Y chromosome, new research has indicated, junking earlier predictions that the sex chromosome will lose all its genes and wipe out all males.

A study conducted by a US-based biologist and presented today at a human genome science meeting in Hyderabad shows that the human Y chromosome will retain its genes for at least another 300 million years.