(December 14, 2014 at 7:27 pm)lifesagift Wrote: Surely life expectancy is key? and number of offspring?
Yes to both. As life expectancy increases - due to getting a handle on what vorlon mentioned above (among other things) - the number of children who survive long enough to have offspring themselves is going to increase, creating a sort of snowball effect.
Humanity has gotten itself into a position where the limiting factors for populations of other organisms (predation, loss of habitat, food shortages, diseases, etc) really don't matter all that much.
Yet.
Boru
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