Modern medicine and the pampering effects of economic growth mean that, these days, women everywhere give birth to fewer children than they did in the distant evolutionary past, when human bodies and physiology were forged even as more of the offspring they do bear survive into adulthood.
The state has said in its appeals court filing that bears have survived previous warming periods and most populations have grown or remained stable despite shrinkage of ice.
Class survival followed a binomial distribution (i.e. a random number was drawn from a Bernoulli trial with class survival as a parameter and a bear survived if the result was 1 and died if it was 0).
(The polar bears survived, barely, although now climate change is threatening them with extinction once again).
The Bears survived a late push after building a 17-point lead.
(A Schwarz teddy bear survived the Titanic, he said. It was the companion of a 6-year-old boy who had been onboard.
In short, whether polar bears survived one or two warming periods of the past, they never have faced the kind of warming we will see in the next century.
But the discomfort faded fast, as three Junior League volunteers launched into a skit about how Carey, a stuffed toy bear, survived his first experience in court.
That's not how people thought back then, though, so we're incredibly fortunate that any U.S. grizzly bears survived outside Alaska.
The bear might have survived the decade.
