Thomas Malthus proposed that
A) the food supply increased faster than the population.
B) the population increased faster than the food supply.
C) the food supply and population increased at the same rate.
D) artificial selection was the key to evolution.
E) natural selection was the key to evolution.

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Thomas Malthus proposed that the population increases faster than the food supply. He stated that human population's tendency to increase faster than the food supply would eventually lead to famine and starvation, thereby keeping the population in check. He also proposed that this was the primary factor limiting the growth of human population.

Thomas Malthus Proposed That