5 Things We Still Get Wrong About Human Reproduction

You'd think we'd know everything there is to know about sexual reproduction. But as it turns out, there are still quite a few things we picked up that aren't exactly true, and we're here to correct that.

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Sources:

New Eggs
https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4409/8/2/93
https://www.britannica.com/science/ovum

Menstrual Cycles
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4174...
https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-li...
https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-li...

Pregnancy During Periods
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NB...
https://americanpregnancy.org/es/gett...

Not the Fastest Sperm
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1...
https://academic.oup.com/humrep/artic...
https://www.fertstert.org/article/S00...
https://academic.oup.com/humupd/artic...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/f...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1...

Fertilization Misconceptions
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https://www.nature.com/articles/natur...
https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs...
https://bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2...
https://www.quantamagazine.org/choosy...
http://discovermagazine.com/1992/jun/...
https://aeon.co/essays/the-idea-that-...
http://hihg.med.miami.edu/code/http/m...