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- W1552467448 abstract "Darwin noted that on average parents produce more offspring during their lifetime than are needed to replace themselves, and so populations have the potential to increase in number. This fact is one of the cornerstones of his theory of natural selection and we can ask why organisms should have this characteristic? Why should there be an overproduction of offspring? Perhaps the easiest way to answer this question is to consider the fate of populations which do not have this characteristic. Obviously, if individuals cannot fully replace themselves, the population will decline to zero and be eliminated. Populations adopting an exact replacement strategy suffer the same fate, because there is always a chance that some individuals will die before they reproduce and so these populations will decline to extinction as their reproductive base shrinks. Thus, although natural selection can select for any reproductive rate, providing that rate leaves the most descendants, only those populations where there is an overproduction of offspring survive over the long term, the others are eliminated." @default.
- W1552467448 created "2016-06-24" @default.
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- W1552467448 date "2003-11-20" @default.
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- W1552467448 title "Density-independent growth and overproduction" @default.
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