Ummm, isn't that the smaller the size and the shorter the life or an organism, the faster its reproduction processes are?
Or are you into something I missed?
Or are you into something I missed?
curioucity said:Ummm, isn't that the smaller the size and the shorter the life or an organism, the faster its reproduction processes are?
Or are you into something I missed?
BigBlueHead said:Probably by metabolizing its own body mass into egg proteins, leaving it a tiny, dry, egg-filled husk. Of course, this means that different maternal lines of fruitflies would represent different mass budgets... skinny flies would forever lay small eggs, since the maternal investment would represent more mass than the fruitfly is actually able to consume from its environment in its short lifespan.
BigBlueHead said:I got a riddle: where's Neuro?