Sentence examples for more offspring and from inspiring English sources

People whose mothers were still alive both gave birth to more offspring and raised a higher proportion of those offspring to adulthood.

Furthermore, Gjederem and others found that because fish produce exponentially more offspring and reach sexual maturity faster than land animals, the interval of generational improvement was shorter, leading to the rapid creation of a faster-growing breed.

Lonely hearts occasionally find each other to bear a few more offspring and so keep a unique genetic branch on the tree of life growing just a little bit longer.

Others fingered high levels of nest predation, which prompts females to seek more males to mate with, in order to produce more offspring, and leave nests untended; again, males pick up the slack.

If changing conditions favor, say, tallness, then tall people will have more offspring, and more copies of variants that code for tallness will circulate in the population.               .

These swifter deer will, all things being equal, leave more offspring, and these offspring will have a tendency to be swifter than other deer.

The weighted mean for the QoL and HRQoL of those with five or more offspring was 58.5 and 47.1, respectively (father mean: 60.4 and 52.8; mother mean: 57.5 and 44.3; table 1).

DNA analysis showed that chivalrous males have more offspring on average and mate more often.

The basic notion that some organisms leave more offspring than others, and that their genes are preserved, works regardless of location.

Birds with tail feathers of equal length tend to have more offspring, for example, and humans who are more symmetrical are judged to be better looking.

Directed removal of data from one end of the scale is expected to under-estimate heritability and consequently bias estimates of EBV; in particular sires with the poorer breeding values since they are expected to have more offspring with missing (and bad) records.