Biology 2010 Student Edition

Published by Prentice Hall
ISBN 10: 9780133669510
ISBN 13: 978-0-13366-951-0

Chapter 5, Populations - Assessment - 5.3 Human Population Growth - Understand Key Concepts/Think Critically - Page 149: 27

Answer

Thomas Malthus believed that factors such as wars, disease, and famines would limit the human population.

Work Step by Step

Thomas Malthus believed that density-dependent limiting factors such as wars, disease, and famines would limit the human population. This idea would have a profound effect on Charles Darwin's thinking.
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