The natural life history of spoons begins when coffee spoons suddenly appear as in a big bang, in hardware stores, and someone buys them, they then grow in sudden temporal jumps into teaspoons and dessert spoons, then serving spoons, and in middle age become either ladles, or metal frying pans, depending on the gender. This can take years, and I'm not sure what happens to them after this. Just count the various spoon-forms in toto and they're always constant