• Question: how come ants have alot of babys but people only have a few?

    Asked by cheese2000 to Kate, Mark U, Tess, Yue on 2 May 2012.
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      Mark Uphill answered on 2 May 2012:


      Good question cheese2000! Without this being my area of expertise by any stretch of the imagination, I would sense that there is some evolutionary advantage to ants having lots of babies; perhaps a large proportion die at an early age from predators and thus having “more” makes sense from an evolutionary sense. From a very personal perspective, having a human baby is hard work, particularly for the mother at the time of birth!

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