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fecundityPotential rate at which an organism reproduces, as distinct from its ability to reproduce (fertility). In vertebrates, it is usually measured as the number of offspring produced by a female each year. Specifically, it refers to the quantity of gametes (usually eggs) produced per female over a given time. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Owing to occasional retrogressions, to still more frequent moral and intellectual stagnation, and to the extraordinary fecundity of the Criminal and Vagabond Classes, there is always a vast superfluity of individuals of the half degree and single degree class, and a fair abundance of Specimens up to 10 degrees. Directly this extraor- dinary growth encountered water it straightway became gigantic and of unparalleled fecundity. But to the knowledge of human fecundity and sterility all the wisdom and education of your rulers will not attain; the laws which regulate them will not be discovered by an intelligence which is alloyed with sense, but will escape them, and they will bring children into the world when they ought not. |
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