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How Long Does a Population of Animals Live?
In any one population of animals, what's remarkably consistent actually is the shape of this curve. So you can have a hundred animals, and maybe around day ten, some of one animalsart will die. But out o day 30, there'll still be one animal alive. And so that sort of models be sevin a population where you can have individuals with an average life span of the population - but they could live to 95 or 70. Is it the similar thing for our little round worms? Yes, absolutely. They all have the same geno. It's hard to know at that ay which ones are going to be long lived and which ones are short lived. What are the things