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  • Exponential trends always lead to startling results, as Darwin demonstrated when, with the aid of his mathematician son George, he took the elephant as an example of a slow-breeding animal and showed that, in just a few centuries of unrestricted exponential growth, the descendants of just one pair of elephants would carpet the earth.

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

  • Exponential trends always lead to startling results, as Darwin demonstrated when, with the aid of his mathematician son George, he took the elephant as an example of a slow-breeding animal and showed that, in just a few centuries of unrestricted exponential growth, the descendants of just one pair of elephants would carpet the earth.

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

  • So in ground hornbills we seem to have slow-breeding, terrestrial, ground-feeding, carnivorous savannah-dwellers that belong to a clade of mostly arboreal, forest-dwelling frugivores.

    Bucorvids: post-Cretaceous maniraptorans on the savannah Darren Naish 2006

  • So in ground hornbills we seem to have slow-breeding, terrestrial, ground-feeding, carnivorous savannah-dwellers that belong to a clade of mostly arboreal, forest-dwelling frugivores.

    Archive 2006-08-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • Some experts believe that human predators helped in the process of extinction by exploiting slow-breeding mammals like the mammoth and mastodon.

    H. The First Settlement of the Americas (c. 15,000 Years Ago) 2001

  • "For some of the most vulnerable, slow-breeding species, continued unregulated fishing will fast erode their vulnerable populations."

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • "Even slow-breeding man has doubled in twenty-five years, and at this rate, in a few thousand years, there would literally not be standing room for his progeny."

    'Darwin and Marx' Lewontin, Richard C. 1990

  • Even the slow-breeding elephant would, if allowed to breed unhindered for seven hundred and fifty years, produce nineteen million offspring -- a rate of increase plainly incompatible with the continued existence of other animals.

    The Story of the Living Machine A Review of the Conclusions of Modern Biology in Regard to the Mechanism Which Controls the Phenomena of Living Activity

  • Darwin wrote that even the slow-breeding human species had doubled in the preceding quarter century.

    The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope Henry Edward Crampton

  • Even slow-breeding mankind has doubled in twenty-five years; and if he could increase his food with greater ease, he would double in less time.

    Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various

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