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What is the difference between fecundity and fertility?
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These two terms both deal with reproduction of species (most often mammals), but their difference is not so much physiological as semantic. That is, “fertility” deals with the ability to reproduce, while “fecundity” refers to frequency, willingness, and healthiness of a female to undergo the fertilization numerous times. In bygone days, human fecundity allowed family offspring sizes to go up to and past a dozen; in modern times a family with eight offspring from one mother would be described as “fecund.
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What is the difference between fecundity and fertility?
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WORDPROF | CERTIFIED EDUCATOR
These two terms both deal with reproduction of species (most often mammals), but their difference is not so much physiological as semantic. That is, “fertility” deals with the ability to reproduce, while “fecundity” refers to frequency, willingness, and healthiness of a female to undergo the fertilization numerous times. In bygone days, human fecundity allowed family offspring sizes to go up to and past a dozen; in modern times a family with eight offspring from one mother would be described as “fecund.
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