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"Human population grows in geometric rat...

"Human population grows in geometric ratio while food materials increase in arithmetic proportion." It is a statement from

A

Darwin

B

Bateson

C

Amartya Sen

D

malthus.

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D
In 1798, Malthus, put forward a theory of humna population growth. It states that population grows geometrically, when unchecked whereas the means of its subsistence like food grwos only arithmetically.
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