How to pronounce “fecund” in English

But when people say, is fertility declining, I think they're really talking about what we call fecundability, the abilityto be fecund, to give birth, which is a very different thing from wanting to.And so to have a birth, you have to both have the ability to get pregnant and the desire to get pregnant.

This is from my friend Matt Ridley, wonderful evolutionary biologist and journalist.A period of fantastic fecund R&D.

and because it was solving a problem of more than 50 years old about the behavior of plasma physics.The first chapter is the fecundation.

his answer was, I don't know that we'll ever see the end of the age of oil, but I do know that the Stone Age didn't endYou had a three year protocol to create fecundity there.

Personally, I'll take Beta-Max even now.Huge error rate, but huge fecundity; huge productivity of new ideas.Democracy can afford less of an error rate than markets, but it still has a very large one.

You can count on getting food from someone else.But for our body size and for how late we begin reproducing, we are very fecund.

And I remembered what we already know, that insects are without number and without end. That in comparison we are no more than dust.And that this is not the worst of it. There's the nightmare of the fecundity and the nightmare of the multitude.There's the nightmare of uncontrolled bodies, and the nightmare of inside our bodies and all over our bodies. There's the nightmare of unguarded orifices

That's the actual demographic definition of fertility.But when people say, is fertility declining, I think they're really talking about what we call fecundability, the abilityto be fecund, to give birth, which is a very different thing from wanting to.