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[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 week ago

that's not how it works.

It is more advantageous to have more than 1 shot at spreading your genes than having only a single one.

Yes, your genes will be spread with just reproducing once, but they will be even more spread if you have a long and productive live with even more offspring

The YT channel primer actually made a video about rougjly this topic recently

[-] Krik@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

Tell that to all the animals that only have one shot. There are quite a lot of them and usually they all lay thousands of eggs.

Probably the most well known of them is the salmon. Only about 5% of them survive the procreation after the salmon run (of those salmon species that actually do the run).

[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 week ago

yes, and that is in disagreement with my post how?

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