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- Will having lots of kids shorten your life?
Will having lots of kids shorten your life?
Maybe it's the StarCraft player in me, but I've long assumed a tradeoff between fast growth and a long life.
The Zerg reproduce quickly but die quickly, and the Protoss reproduce slowly but die more slowly.
There's echoes of this in r vs k selection.
In our society, we often see a hard tradeoff between having many kids early or living a long, good life.
So, does this tradeoff exist for individuals in a species?