[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

[ECO] "All the individuals of a population... are exposed to the adversity of the environment, and almost all of them perish or fail to reproduce." (E. Mayr, 2001)

[js1138] in humans a large percentage -- a third or more -- of conceptions do not come to term

In other words, Mayr's statement is literally false.

[js1138]

In other words you can’t read a simple declarative sentence.

Parse it for us. In terms of evolution — many variations produced; only a few are successful at continuing the germ line, what part is false?

[metmom]

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