An Amazing 10 Years: The Discovery of Egg and Sperm in the 17th Century

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The scientific identification of the key components of sexual reproduction - eggs and sperm - took place during an amazing decade of discovery in the 1660s and 1670s. The names of many of the people involved are now forgotten, and yet their work, and the difficulties they faced and the conflicts they endured, resonate strongly to the present day. Despite this period of innovation, the respective roles of egg and...

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