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Overproduction is the ability of a species to produce far more offspring than can possibly survive. This leads to a 'struggle for survival'. Individuals with the most useful features (the best adaptations) also known as "survival of the fittest" will survive and leave more offspring than other individuals. Their offspring will inherit the useful variations and pass them on in their turn. This is the process of natural selection.

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The theory of overproduction is that if an area over produces the capacity of that area will decrease, resulting in the need for more land, more food and more water that is not there. Sinse the population has gone over the carrying capacity of said area, the area cannot handle the population, resulting in famine, deaths and chaos. Overproduction does happen in r-stratagist creatures, creature that increase rapidly in population but then decreases rapidly. It is better to be k-stratagist, creatures that produce few offsprings and stay close but under there environments carrying capacity.

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In any given generation, populations tend to create more progeny than can survive to reproductive age. This is called Overproduction.

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Overproduction is too much of something. That is also how it is in science.

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when there is too many offspring off of one species.

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