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Darwin also observed that many species produce far more eggs or seeds than could ever develop into adults and be supported by the ecosystem. For example, a single female horseshoe crab may 100,000 eggs during the breeding season, but only 1 in 130,000 eggs survives to adulthood. Many eggs are lost to predators before they ever hatch. Predators also thin out hatchlings as soon as they reach the ocean waters. Darwin speculated that the overproduction of offspring was necessary to ensure that there would be enough adults to continue the species.

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