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Letter: Seminal seminar

Published 26 October 2011

From Gerald Legg, Booth Museum of Natural History

Your article on metamorphosis (24 September, p 56) reminded me of a seminar I attended in the 1970s, on the reproduction of marine life forms.

A very large proportion of these organisms rely on the stable, oxygen-rich saline environment of the sea to nurture and disperse their eggs and sperm. What if things got mixed up – the “wrong” sperm finding the “wrong” egg? What would this lead to?

Brighton, UK

Issue no. 2836 published 29 October 2011

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