The British clergyman and economist Malthus was one of the first to recognize which of the following?

A) Human populations cannot continue to increase indefinitely.
B) Animals arrange themselves into populations.
C) Some species are r -strategists.
D) Some species are K -strategists.
E) Not all species can be classified as exclusively r -strategists or K -strategists.

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Jorge Nieto · Accepted Answer

Final Answer : A, Explanation :  Malthus is best known for his theory that population growth will always tend to outrun the food supply and that betterment of humankind is impossible without strict limits on reproduction. This concept, outlined in his essay An Essay on the Principle of Population, published in 1798, posits that human populations grow exponentially, while food production grows at an arithmetic rate, leading to inevitable shortages. His work did not directly address animal population strategies (r/K selection theory), which were identified and described much later in the context of evolutionary biology.

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