Sentence examples for fewer offspring from inspiring English sources

Those that leave relatively fewer offspring are displaced.

Individuals in a K-selected population give birth at a later age to fewer offspring.

They found that animals with strong antibody responses produced fewer offspring each year, but also lived longer.

The rich, demographers have shown, are different from the rest of us: they generally have fewer offspring.

Fish that rely on dissolved oxygen will grow more slowly, peak at a smaller body size, and produce fewer offspring.

Humans, and larger-bodied animals in general, mature late, have fewer offspring and a wider reproductive window.

Nutrition clearly affects the number of offspring produced, with malnourished females laying fewer eggs or giving birth to fewer offspring.

Even more worryingly, harmful effects were inherited by the males they produced – their lives were 20% shorter and they in turn produced fewer offspring.

When times are hard, the managers say, many more elk die, and the survivors produce fewer offspring -- the population regulates itself.

We modern souls, with fewer offspring, longer life expectancies and less metaphysical and moral certainty, are less easily soothed by vicarious grief.

The sons of the males who endured the heat wave produced 20percentt fewer offspring than males that hadn't undergone that stress.