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Letter: Who boldly goes?

Published 17 October 2007

From Jo Darlington

If people were serious about colonising space or the planets (Letters, 29 September, p 22) they would not send couples, but a party of healthy young women and a sperm bank. Every child born would have a different father, thus minimising the dangerous genetic bottleneck otherwise caused by a small founder population.

Cambridge, UK

Issue no. 2626 published 20 October 2007

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