Profligate Nature
COUNTLESS millions of seeds, both of plant and animal life, can never reach maturity. It is quite obvious that only a certain number of trees can grow on an acre of land, and only a certain number of sheep can live on an acre of grass. Hence this productivity of nature lends to the struggle for existence. It is said only one oyster out of 5,000,000 reaches maturity. A single pair of flies are said to produce 20,000 larvae, which in a few weeks will hatch into flies ready to reproduce, thus giving rise very soon to 200 million larvae. Indeed, living things multiply so rapidly that they would,’ if not in part destroyed, soon produce enough progeny from a single
pair to cover the earth.
(" Evolution."
Professor
R.
Lawson
4YA, March 24.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 146, 10 April 1942, Page 3
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135Profligate Nature New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 146, 10 April 1942, Page 3
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