What Is the Golden Ratio?

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9. Reproduction

All animals reproduce as a way of continuing the passing on of genetic information. Some have rather different methods of procreation than others but the end result is essentially the same.

Some species will give birth to relatively few offspring with a focus on helping individuals survive, whereas others will give birth to many, giving them relative safety in numbers. The golden ratio can even be seen in reproduction patterns. In honey bees, for example, the number of grandparents that male bees have follows the Fibonacci sequence and, by extension, the golden ratio. In addition, there are always more females than males in a colony, and the ratio between the two is close to .

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