Darwin drew on the work of Thomas Malthus, a political economist, to convince his readers that:

a. there is a competition for limited resources in nature.
b. many individuals in a population do not survive to the age of reproduction.
c. only a fraction of individuals in a population reproduce.
d. None of the above.


D

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