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  4. The concept that population tends to increase geometrically while food supply increases arithmetically was put forward by :

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Q. The concept that population tends to increase geometrically while food supply increases arithmetically was put forward by :

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The concept that 'population tends to increase geometrically while food supply increases arithmetically were put forward by Thomas Malthus. In his theory of natural selection, Charles Darwin was greatly influenced by the English clergyman Thomas Malthus. Malthus published a book in $1798$ stating that populations with unlimited natural resources grow very rapidly, after which population growth decreases as resources become depleted. This accelerating pattern of increasing population size is called exponential growth.