During a single ejaculation roughly between 40 million and 1.2 billion sperm cells are released but it only takes one of these mighty swimmers to fertilize an egg. The reason for the release of so many sperm cells has everything to do with evolutionary competition. Men are naturally programmed to procreate and in order for his genes to be passed on to new life, he must ensure his cells reach a fertile egg before his competitor. The more of his cells that can get close to the target, the better chance his competitor will be knocked out of competition. However, it only takes one.
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5. Sperm are always being created.
It takes two months for a sperm cell to go through the entire process of spermatogenesis but new sperm cells are always being created. Women are born with all of the eggs she will ever have throughout her life, but a man can produce sperm cells up until the day his life ends.
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