Joel Werner

What?

The series of coincidences are stacking up.

So the first time her body has ever released an egg, there just happens to be sperm that's made its way from oral sex, out a wound in her stomach from a stab fight, on a magical journey through her abdominal cavity, and then it fertilizes the only egg that's ever been there to be fertilized.

It's sort of, I mean, often when we're talking about these unbelievable stories in science, I think about that amazing documentary Jurassic Park.

and its famous line, life finds a way.

But this is like the perfect example of life finding a way.

The odds have been completely stacked against this fertilization event ever occurring.

And somehow there's a healthy child at the end of it.

Wow.

Well, this is the thing, you know, from the very first time you start studying science, you're told the simplest solution is often the accurate solution.

And if this story we're being told is the simplest solution, like, it makes you think, like, are there other mechanisms by which this could have occurred?

Wow.

Now, do we know what happened?

Is there any resolution to the love story?

I love these stories where they're just completely, almost impossible coincidences that lead to an event.

And it sort of challenges our notion of kind of like, what is likely?

You know, like if this can be true, if this somehow is the way that that sperm and that egg found each other, then, you know, it gives you a sort of sense of like...

I kind of like want to believe, like I want to lean in and just like believe that life will find a way.

Thanks, Wendy.