Michael Ruse, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA
Published online: September 2006
DOI: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0005703
Thomas Robert Malthus (1766–1834) was a population theorist who opposed theories of indefinite human progress. His thinking about the struggle for existence was very important for the evolutionist Charles Darwin.
Keywords: population; struggle for existence; Darwin
| Further Reading | |
| book Malthus TR (1798) An Essay on the Principle of Population. London: Printed for J. Johnson, In St Paul's Church-Yard. (1966 reprint) New York, NY: Macmillan. | |
| book Malthus TR [1826] (1914) An Essay on the Principle of Population, 6th edn. London, UK: Everyman. | |
| book McCleary GF (1953) The Malthusian Population Theory. London, UK: Faber & Faber. | |
| book Nisbet R (1980) History and the Idea of Progress. New York, NY: Basic Books. | |
| book Ruse M (1979) The Darwinian Revolution: Science Red in Tooth and Claw. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. | |
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