Dave Hone
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And they get really big.
You see that one with the diver.
But I think these are the record breeders for animals, and they have something like 100 million eggs at a time.
Whoa.
Don't quote me on that, but it is something in those kinds of numbers.
So yeah, you don't need a very large population of sunfish to start having an awful lot of numbers.
Are you going to Google it and see if you can find it?
Number of eggs or something?
Yeah.
300 million.
Oh, I undercut it.
That's still a lot of eggs, though, when you think about it.
It's not that small.
Yeah.
300 million of one mil is still quite a bit.
But that's the bit of evolution that I think I understand why people don't get it.
We are mostly talking about millions in population times millions of years times thousands of offspring.
Yeah, and it's kind of a numbers game.
Well, how could this evolve?
Well, the right selective pressure, and when you've got 100 billion offspring, probably a few of them have that.