Which scientist led Darwin to his great idea about the cause of evolutionary change by observing that human populations grow much faster than available food supplies and that famine was an inevitable feature of human existence?

A. Charles Darwin
B. Jean Baptiste Lamarck
C. Charles Lyell
D. Thomas Malthus


Answer: D

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