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Darwin

The person that had the most effects on Darwin would have to be Thomas Malthus. Although he was not a scientist, he still had a lot of the information that Darwin used to make his theories on. He was an Economist and concentrated on the population size and how it fluctuated. On the idea of overpopulation and natural selection he said, " Humans do not overpopulate to the point of starvation, he contended, only because people change their behavior in the face of economic incentives" ("Thomas Robert Malthus"). He understood that there are things that humans do in order to survive and that was what Darwin believed. Darwin had theories about natural selection and that only the strong survive, but by using the data that Malthus had it made Darwin think. According to the article, Malthus was concerned with, "figures on births, deaths, age of marriage and childbearing, and economic factors contributing to longevity" and that was why he was so influential to Darwin. Darwin's theories all had to do with this stuff and by looking at these results he was able to perfect his ideas. The idea that organisms are able to produce a certain amount of organisms but there are things that get in the way of producing to their full potential. With the example of rabbits, Malthus would say that because there is only a certain amount of resources and food for a certain amount of rabbits, there is no way for all of them to survive. There would be too many mouths and not enough food to feed them. Resources are limited and that is why the death rate and birth rate have to change because there may not be enough food at one point or another. During the summer they might have a higher birth rate because of the food that is available and in the winter there might be a higher death rate. With humans, there are things like the economy that also come into play. Malthus was an economist so he understood not only population but also how the economy was that could effect population. If there was a depression there would not be as many people having children because they could not afford it, and people would be dying more because there would not be enough food for everyone to live. Without the ideas that Malthus had, Darwin might not have been able to relate the ideas that he had to real life things. If he did not know the data from the populations and the death and birth rate he would not have known how they related to natural selection. There are more issues that effect the population rates than only people being born and people dying and Malthus had that information. The church did put a ban on the book and the conservative Christians did not want the book read in schools. There were many debates on the book and it was banned until not too long ago. Now the Catholic Church recognizes the fact that people have changed over time, but there is still a divine power that people come from.
"Thomas Robert Malthus." The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics. 2008. Library of Economics and Liberty. 16 April 2014. <http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/bios/Malthus.html>.