Evolution of descended testes in mammals
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Evolution of descended testes in mammals
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Mammals are the only animals in which the testes descend from their point of origin into a scrotum. Concurrently, mammals are the only class of vertebrates to evolve a prostate gland starting with prostate evolution in monotreme mammals. Testicular descent occurs to a variable degree in various mammals, ranging from virtually no change of position from the abdominal cavity; through migration to the caudal end of the abdominal cavity; migration just through the abdominal wall; formation of a sub-
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