In 1838 the founding father of modern biology, Charles Darwin, read the 1798 edition of the Rev. Thomas Robert Malthus' Essay on the Principle of Population.

Thomas Malthus was an 18th-century economist best known for his theories about population growth. Learn more about overpopulation and the Malthusian growth model.

Over the past five years, the world's population has risen by roughly 80 million people annually, reaching an estimated 6.8 billion in 2009. Barring a sudden reversal in demographic trends, more ...

Darwin and Malthus: The year was 1838. In England, the Industrial Revolution was under way, but it had made rich only the owners of production, not the workers.

More than 225 years ago, prominent English scholar and political economist Thomas Malthus made one of history’s most spectacularly wrong predictions: continuous population growth arising from ...

The holiday season is here, and with it a chance to read or watch Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. Whether the book itself, or portrayals onscreen with Alistair Sim, George C. Scott, Patrick ...

In 1798, Thomas Robert Malthus, a popular economist, published An Essay on the Principle of Population. In this essay, Malthus argued that population grew geometrically while food production grew ...

The answer, I think, is in the work of the Rev. Thomas Malthus, an economist who lived in Britain from 1766 to 1834. His most famous work was An Essay on the Principle of Population, published in ...

Rousseau, Malthus, and Thanos Were Wrong The authors of Superabundance make a strong case that more people and industrialization mean a richer, more prosperous world. Nick Gillespie | From the ...

The good people at Kite & Key Media launched their fall series of cool videos with one taking Thomas Malthus and Paul Erlich and other Doomsday Apostles to the intellectual woodshed. For centuries ...

The answer, I think, is in the work of the Rev. Thomas Malthus, an economist who lived in Britain from 1766 to 1834. His most famous work was An Essay on the Principle of Population, published in 1798 ...