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  1. The concept that population tends to increase geometrically while food supply increases arithmetically was put forward by
    1. Stuart Mill
    2. Adam Smith
    3. Charles Darwin
    4. Thomas Malthus
Correct Option: D

Thomas R. Malthus put forward a theory of human population growth in 1778. He told that population grows in geometrical progression, whereas the means which support it, grow only in arithmetical progression.


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