Threshold fertility for the avoidance of extinction under critical conditions (IMAGE)

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Threshold fertility for the avoidance of extinction under critical conditions

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The new research reveals that small population sizes and random birth patterns raise the fertility threshold needed to avoid extinction.

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Rafael AS Martins, Unsplash, CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)

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