Why do creatures only grow to certain sizes?

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Basically i just saw a post about a massive black widow spider living in an electrical box and it got me thinking. Why is growth limited to a “general size” in most cases? Is it just natural genetic code that says ” You will only grow this much and no more”, or does it all depend on stuff like environment, nutrition, risk factors, etc?

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I’m subscribed to Hogwarts Legacy subreddits, and came in here thinking it was that!

Anyway, the answer is they have babies and adults and it’s enormously more simple to keep those two varieties around, so you can be specific about the way they interact etc, than to develop many different sizes for growth over time.

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