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EPISODE · Dec 14, 2020 · 3 MIN

Why are sperm made below body temperature?

from Question of the Week, from the Naked Scientists · host Dr Chris Smith

Jordan got in touch to ask ""Why do females produce eggs inside the body, at body temperature, but males have to produce sperm outside the body, at a lower temperature?" Eva Higginbotham put the question to reproduction expert William Colledge at the University of Cambridge... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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