slow-breeding

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