Timeline for With access to near-future technology, what is the largest amount of healthy children a mother could give birth to in her lifetime?
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| Apr 24, 2018 at 17:06 | comment | added | Ed Marty | If you're looking for the potential for all women PLUS the exponential growth capability of their offspring, then yes, any given woman would have an infinite number of descendants, assuming an infinite number of resources and timespan. | |
| Apr 24, 2018 at 3:58 | comment | added | Bald Bear | Sorry to throw a wrench into your math, but you can use some of the baby girls to become a mom too, and produce more babies. I am pretty sure OP will run out of resources to feed all the children before he runs out of reproductive capacity of moms. | |
| Apr 23, 2018 at 17:50 | comment | added | Nicolai | Also note that with current / near-future technology a pregnancy doesn't really have to last the full 9 months - children born a couple of months early have a pretty good survival rate nowadays and with some surgery you can get them whenever you want. | |
| Apr 23, 2018 at 14:08 | comment | added | Ed Marty | Yes. Yes it is. I assumed that’s what OP was looking for. | |
| Apr 23, 2018 at 12:57 | comment | added | RonJohn | Biology informs the math.. Your formula is nothing but a hyper-aggressive version of what I wrote in the comments. | |
| Apr 23, 2018 at 12:56 | comment | added | Ed Marty | I don’t have the scientific knowledge to prove it, but with near-future technology it may be possible to improve child-bearing capability at a younger age. Although now that you bring it up, it is not likely that quadruplets are going to work at such a young age. Perhaps the mother would need to start off with singles, and slowly move up from there as she ages. | |
| Apr 23, 2018 at 12:48 | comment | added | Ed Marty | Well, basic math plus some basic biology. | |
| Apr 23, 2018 at 4:59 | comment | added | RonJohn | OP specified "healthy children", and a 9 year old won't be bearing too many healthy children. Hips just aren't wide enough. | |
| Apr 23, 2018 at 4:58 | comment | added | RonJohn | "(45-9) years * 12 months per year / 10 months per pregnancy * 4 babies per pregnancy = 172.8 babies. That's still basic math... | |
| Apr 23, 2018 at 3:17 | vote | accept | Sydney Sleeper | ||
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| Apr 23, 2018 at 1:22 | history | answered | Ed Marty | CC BY-SA 3.0 |