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Sperm counts among men in the industrialized world have plummeted by 60 percent in the past 40 years. Could this worrisome trend impact the future of the human race? Shanna H. Swan, PhD, Professor of Environmental Medicine and Public Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, author of "Count Down: How Our Modern World Is Threatening Sperm Counts, Altering Male and Female Reproductive Development, and Imperiling the Future of the Human Race," says if trends continue at the current rate, most couples may have to seek assisted reproduction by the year 2045.