OBJECTIVE LIFE SCIENCE
EVOLUTION
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Question
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The economist Thomas Malthus suggested that
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in the human population, people die faster than babies are born.
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without certain checks on population size, there would soon be insufficient food for the growing human population.
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in the 1700s, England needed more housing.
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the majority of a species’ offspring die.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Based on his observation of conditions in England in the early 1800s, Malthus argued that the available farmland was insufficient to feed the increasing population. More specifically, he stated that the human population increases geometrically, while food production increases arithmetically.
Detailed explanation-2: -Malthus claimed that, if unchecked, the population of a nation or even the world would double every 25 years. He got this idea from Benjamin Franklin, who had estimated that 1 million American colonists, living in an abundant and healthy environment, would double to 2 million in 25 years.
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