offspring

IPA: ˈɔfsprɪŋ

Examples of "offspring" in Sentences

Having sterile offspring is not an evolutionary advantage.
The non-fertility of those offspring is another general rule that has exceptions.
When you help to give birth, the health and welfare of the offspring is always of great interest.
With our congenital defect, even the thought of the act that might produce offspring is most horrid to us.
The first tentative encounter between Paul and his offspring is handled with considerable wit and delicacy.
* In primitive conditions, given the unsually demanding task (compared to other mammals) of raising human babies, paternal investment in offspring is required.
Maybe all this will change for the better as a new generation is born with an online presence, with an increasing number of parents securing Twitter addresses for their offspring from the start.
Helms, Fewellf & Rissing, Sex ratio determination by queens and workers in the ant Pheidole desertorum, Animal Behaviour 2000. angryoldfatman: Having sterile offspring is not an evolutionary advantage.
As the result, the level of intelligence in offspring is (more or less) normally — i.e., "bell curve" — distributed among the offspring, with the average being the AVERAGE OF THE average of the parents 'intelligence and the racial average.
So having sterile offspring is not an evolutionary disadvantage, unless it results in extinction, then it is. angryoldfatman: For social insects to have evolved, at some point having sterile offspring had to be advantageous for the organism in question.