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Darwin used Malthus's theory of population growth as a model for how natural selection operates. Malthus argued that human populations increase faster than the resources needed to sustain them, leading to competition for those limited resources. Darwin applied this concept to natural populations and showed that in nature, just as in human populations, individuals compete for limited resources such as food, water, and mates. Many individuals in a population do not survive to reproductive age, and only a fraction of those that do reproduce successfully. Therefore, all of the above options are correct.

Darwin Drew on the Work of Thomas Malthus,a Political Economist,to