It was in this pivotal year that Darwin, back from his voyage on the Beagle and trying to understand the forces that drove the origin of new species, read the works of Thomas Malthus, a parson and ...

While climate change and pandemics helped cause a nearly US$4 trillion loss in crops and livestock over the past 30 years, ...

Wrapped in a blanket on a 88°F day, he thought of the English economist Thomas Malthus's essay on population, which he had read some years earlier. It occurred to him that the diseases ...

Thomas Malthus had a point. Had, that is, a point. I mean, some of his 18th century ideas are generally true, but his predictions didn’t seem to pan out the way he predicted, especially in ...

D onald Trump and J. D. Vance have a story to sell you: Amid a scramble for housing in the United States, the real problem is the presence of immigrants.

However, whereas Greene's vision implies a certain romance, as in the somnolent and charmingly seedy Freetown of his celebrated novel The Heart of the Matter, it is Thomas Malthus, the philosopher ...

The idea that the human population might experience limits to growth was posed in 1798 in Thomas Malthus's "An Essay on the Principle of Population Growth" and has generated debate for over 200 years.

About 200 years ago, Thomas Malthus wrote that population growth would bump up against the limits of the Earth’s natural resources. As we reach a world population of seven billion people this ...

The idea was originally associated with the human population, and was brought to public attention as early as the eighteenth century by Sir Thomas Malthus. His writings influenced Darwin’s ...

Darwin and other scientific thinkers were inspired by the novelists of their time and similarly indebted to the work of clergyman-demographer Thomas Malthus, whose much-despised 1798 book ...

Students can be asked to find out the density of population of their respective state/ district/ city. · Case Study on Thomas ...

While reading the article in the Globe, “As birthrates plummet globally, countries size up impact” (A5, Oct. 14), I noted such “impact” being described as “problems” such as “working ...