EVOLUTION
DARWIN’S THEORY OF NATURAL SELECTION
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Gregor Mendel
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Jean Baptise Lamarck
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Thomas Malthus
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Alfred Russell Wallace
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Detailed explanation-1: -Thomas Robert Malthus was an influential British economist who is best known for his theory on population growth, outlined in his 1798 book An Essay on the Principle of Population.
Detailed explanation-2: -More recent discussion of overpopulation was popularized by Paul Ehrlich in his 1968 book The Population Bomb and subsequent writings.
Detailed explanation-3: -Thomas Malthus’ work helped inspire Darwin to refine natural selection by stating a reason for meaningful competition between members of the same species.
Detailed explanation-4: -Malthus came to prominence for his 1798 publication, An Essay on the Principle of Population. He wrote the original text in reaction to the optimism of his father and his father’s associates (notably Jean-Jacques Rousseau) regarding the future improvement of society.