Reproduction & Evolution

[Jannit]

One thing that I've been curious about is that I don't think we've seen children or baby zombies.

We've been told that the zombies are alive. They have certain basic requirements in order to live. Some are shown to grow. Living creatures procreate and grow in order for the species to survive. So far we've only seen one form of "procreation" with the zombies and that's the straight up bite --> infect ---> turn series of events.

As it seems that zombies have the ability to choose who they want to turn does it make more sense that they just outright kill the children and babies than rather turn them or are the children being used for something else? What happened to the pregnant women? Did their babies turn into invitro zombies and there are permanently pregant zombie women around or were the children delivered to grow into little ones?

Furthermore, once all of the humans are turned or killed off, what is next for the zombies? How will they survive? Based off of KC stating that zombies are alive, I've also got to wonder if it's possible for them to die of "natural" causes. If their only method of reproduction is infection, they will ALL die relatively shortly after humanity is destroyed, I'd imagine. We haven't had them around long enough, or had enough focus placed on them to be able to tell just how human they really are. It's almost D day for the zombies. D being Darwinism, of course.

<Deleted the reference to food sources as that's covered in the other recent theory topic! My mistake.>

So, what do you think? Can zombies evolve? Were all the children killed outright in the attacks? Were all of the pregnant women killed?

I'm having some issues putting my thoughts into a coherent opening post; an edit for clarity may be required in the future. More coffee is needed to try and combat my rambling brain.