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What concept developed by Malthus influenced Darwin?

Answer 1

Darwin was influenced by Malthus and his understanding of economic competition based upon limits within a community.

Darwin's Theory of Survival of the Fittest, which links competition based on resource and spatial limitations within a community, was influenced by economist Thomas Malthus's understanding of supply and demand-based competition.

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Answer 2

Daniel Allen

The concept developed by Malthus that influenced Darwin was the idea of population growth and the struggle for existence, which contributed to Darwin's theory of natural selection.

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When evaluating a one-sided limit, you need to be careful when a quantity is approaching zero since its sign is different depending on which way it is approaching zero from. Let us look at some examples.