Many organisms have such a mechanism; one thinks of our own evolutionary bottlenecks, both species-wide and locational; and we have repopulated from those, sometimes frighteningly quickly.
Consider my own logical choice not to have children; my sudden and intense desire to have children at the age of 27; and how that was satisfied and ceased by my adoption of a child.
Hormones are chemicals. Hormones respond to emotions; they affect (speaking generally and not individually) physical health and ovulation and sperm production.
And we have not even begun to discuss such possibilities as ducorn or tricorn uterii, which could actually allow a Vulcan woman to take more than one husband at a time, serene in the knowledge that she could carry a child of each at the same time ... there's been nothing whatever to support this, but it - is actually physically possible, vis. cats.
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Date: 2010-08-06 01:49 pm (UTC)Consider my own logical choice not to have children; my sudden and intense desire to have children at the age of 27; and how that was satisfied and ceased by my adoption of a child.
Hormones are chemicals. Hormones respond to emotions; they affect (speaking generally and not individually) physical health and ovulation and sperm production.
And we have not even begun to discuss such possibilities as ducorn or tricorn uterii, which could actually allow a Vulcan woman to take more than one husband at a time, serene in the knowledge that she could carry a child of each at the same time ... there's been nothing whatever to support this, but it - is actually physically possible, vis. cats.