Thomas Malthus
A)proposed that population size is kept in check by the limited availability of resources.
B)wrote the theory of catastrophism.
C)wrote the theory of uniformitarianism.
D)had no influence on the development of Darwin's and Wallace's theories of natural selection.
E)was a sixteenth-century mathematician.

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Thomas Malthus proposed that population growth is limited by resources such as food supply, and this concept influenced Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace in developing their theories of natural selection, where competition for limited resources drives evolution.