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The Science of Reproduction

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This article, based on the Pincus Memorial Lectures which Professor Mann delivered earlier this year, reviews the more significant recent advances in the biology of mammalian reproduction, and outlines present trends and likely developments.

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  1. Laboratory of the Marshall-Walton Professor of Physiology of Reproduction,

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  2. ARC Unit of Reproductive Physiology and Biochemistry, University of Cambridge,

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