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

A

Stuart Mill

B

Adam Smith

C

Charles Darwin

D

Thomas Malthus

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D
Malthus in his Essay on the principle of population (1798), pointed out that population tends to increases only in arithmetic progression.
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