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Caption: Jaclyn Nascimento, a Ph.D. candidate at UCSD, found that sperm cells from the more promiscuous chimpanzee and rhesus macaque species swim much faster and with much greater force than the sperm of humans and gorillas.
Credit: Photos courtesy of primates.com and Red Orbit.
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