8 is enough: The limits to human reproduction (LiveScience.com)

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8 is enough: The limits to human reproduction
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<p>You are not allowed to view links. Register or LoginYou are not allowed to view links. Register or Login - Eight kids at once. The mind boggles. The mind is also pretty creeped out by the thought of one tiny baby after another coming out of a woman as if she were a mouse.

It's great those octuplets  are here and healthy, but really, humans aren't designed to have litters.
     
It's basic energetics. Every individual has only so much energy. Some energy is spent staying alive - that is, finding food and not being somebody else's food - and what's left over can be spent on reproduction. In other words, there are limits to reproduction. ...</p><br clear="all"/>


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