Physiology of Human Conception

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Abstract
ALTHOUGH simple parthenogenesis is not at all uncommon in invertebrates — for instance, in ants and bees — it does not, as far as is known, occur in human beings, who must produce eggs and sperm and then effect their conjugation. The following discussion concerns itself only with the somatic aspects of this complicated process since the beguiling psychologic motivation and mechanisms lie in a mixture of too much fancy with too little fact.Among various vertebrate species the sequential evolvement of the primordial oocyte, within its epithelial capsule, to the mature ovum, in the rupturing follicle, is impressively similar, . . .
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