By now, you have all probably heard about Nadya Suleman, the California woman who gave birth to a set of surviving octuplets last week. It is important to make this distinction, as another set of octuplets was born in the US in 1998, however, one of the babies died a week after birth due to [...]
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Thirty nine years ago, Lesley and John Brown began their quest to try and start a family. For nine long years they tried repeatedly, and had failed at their attempts to have children. Lesley discovered that her fallopian tubes were blocked and would not allow an egg to travel from its location [...]
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As we study reproduction and development during this Valentine's Day week, Time Magazine has an article about an unusual mating behavior observed in a group of lowland gorillas that live in a national park in the Congo. Normal gorilla mating behavior involves the mating pair meeting and mating face-to-back. The gorilla pair described [...]
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