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Ah, and of course, they tend to reproduce slower,because if you reproduce too fast, you exceed the carrying capacity of your prey, and everyone starves.
by EdwardDiego 4y ago
Ah, and of course, they tend to reproduce slower,because if you reproduce too fast, you exceed the carrying capacity of your prey, and everyone starves.
- cwillu 4y agoDanger, Will Robinson! While your statement is true in the sense that we wouldn't see them if they had all previously starved, it's not true that they don't reproduce too fast _because_ they would starve if they did. Evolution doesn't have lookahead, it can't predict consequences and avoid them.
- moloch-hai 4y agoA lineage that reproduces too fast might be displaced by a slower one from elsewhere when it is weakest.