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Why humans develop sex cells as embryos - but corals don't

21 December 2016

Drive to preserve mitochondrial quality might explain why organisms develop sex cells at different stages of development say Arunas Radzvilavicius, Dr Nick Lane and Professor Andrew Pomiankowski (UCL Genetics, Evolution & Environment and UCL CoMPLEX). Read: Nature, More: UCL News, BBC Radio 4 'BBC Inside Science' (from 10 mins)