Question

Consider Darwin's first writings on the theory of natural selection. An important point of Darwin's Essay on the Principle of Population, written in 1798, was a peer's observation that in nature plants and animals produce far more offspring than can survive, This observation can be attributed to A) Charles Lyell. B) Thomas Malthus. C) Jean-Baptiste Lamarck. D) Johann Friedrich Meckel.

Answer 1

B) Thomas Malthus

Step-by-step explanation:

Malthus states that man is also capable of overproducing if left unchecked. He concluded that unless family size was regulated, man's misery of famine would become globally epidemic and eventually consume him. Malthus' view that poverty and famine were natural outcomes of population growth and food supply was not popular among social reformers who believed that with proper social structures, all ills of man could be eradicated.