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The big-mouthed female spiders have a nasty habit of cannibalizing potential mates before copulation, and without sperm to fertilize their eggs, all their hard-won superfecundity could go to waste.

From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2010

If superfecundity exists, it exists, no doubt, because it is a less evil than some other evil which otherwise would exist.

From Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

We have shown that Mr Sadler's theory, if it be true, is as much a theory of superfecundity as that of Mr Malthus.

From Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron