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Sperm has fooled scientists for 350 years – they spin not swim – The Conversation UK
Our breakthrough discovery has found that sperm aren’t “swimmers” after all.
Sperm is critical for the fertilisation of almost every living organism on our planet, including humans. To reproduce, human sperm have to swim a distance equivalent to climbing Mount Everest to find the egg. They complete this epic journey simply by wiggling their tail, moving fluid to swim forwards. Though over 50 million sperm will fail to reach the egg the equivalent to more than six times the entire population of London or New York it only takes one single sperm in order to fertilise an egg…
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