It is a natural tendency of organisms to produce more progeny, like, in a span of 750 years, a single pair of male and female elephants would produce ___________ elephants.

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According to Charles Darwin's observations on the natural tendency of organisms to overproduce, even the slowest breeding animals can produce an enormous number of offspring over time.

Darwin calculated that a single pair of elephants, which are considered among the slowest breeders, would produce approximately $19, 000, 000$ ( $1, 90, 00, 000$ ) descendants in a span of $750$ years if all of them survived and reproduced.

Answer: 1,90,00,000

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