1.If you ask me and many others we would say that Thomas Malthus arguably had the biggest impact on Charles Darwin with his development of natural selection.
2.Although Malthus wasn't a scientist he still played his roll and had a big impact in science with the ideas he gave to Darwin. Malthus figured out and came up with how the origin of species work he realized if humans and animals by them having a lot of children it would make the reason for shortage in food and supplies the key word is restraint he empathize we must restrain from the number of children people had for things to work better This was all described in a essay written by Malthus. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/02/5/l_025_01.html
3.Malthus' paper bolstered the way that assets are constrained and set the establishment for Darwin's theory of "survival of the fittest". Darwin's exploration on the Galapagos finches and their snout adjustments mirror Malthus' impact. Just people that had positive adjustments would endure sufficiently long to go down those qualities to their offspring.
4. Honestly i dont think so the idea that Malthus had Darwin probably never would've thought of that at least for a long time and bringing the idea of restraint help Darwin in his idea of survival in the wild.
5. Honestly the church had a big impact because it held Darwin from letting out his theory later then he wanted to. Darwin's theory of natural selection was a strictly alarming thought. His developmental job of natural selection conflicted with the congregation's conviction that God was liable for making the different types of life.
2.Although Malthus wasn't a scientist he still played his roll and had a big impact in science with the ideas he gave to Darwin. Malthus figured out and came up with how the origin of species work he realized if humans and animals by them having a lot of children it would make the reason for shortage in food and supplies the key word is restraint he empathize we must restrain from the number of children people had for things to work better This was all described in a essay written by Malthus. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/02/5/l_025_01.html
3.Malthus' paper bolstered the way that assets are constrained and set the establishment for Darwin's theory of "survival of the fittest". Darwin's exploration on the Galapagos finches and their snout adjustments mirror Malthus' impact. Just people that had positive adjustments would endure sufficiently long to go down those qualities to their offspring.
4. Honestly i dont think so the idea that Malthus had Darwin probably never would've thought of that at least for a long time and bringing the idea of restraint help Darwin in his idea of survival in the wild.
5. Honestly the church had a big impact because it held Darwin from letting out his theory later then he wanted to. Darwin's theory of natural selection was a strictly alarming thought. His developmental job of natural selection conflicted with the congregation's conviction that God was liable for making the different types of life.
I appreciate how strong your opening stance is to supporting Malthus, but I would like to point out that Malthus did not come up with how the origin of species works. It seems contradictory to say that he was not a scientist, yet he discovered the origin of species. In fact, Darwin was the one who wrote the book on the concept. Malthus contributed his research to the scientific community and this evolved Darwin's own discoveries into his final theory on evolution by mechanism of natural selection. Your response to how evolution is most directly affected by Malthus' work is unclear. I found that Malthus identified a relationship between population growth and a limited food supply which stemmed the concept of competition with Darwin. This idea of competition or survival of the fittest was a main idea of natural selection to support the theory of evolution.
ReplyDeleteWhile you have some good detail in your first paragraph, there are quite a few misconceptions. Let me offer some clarification on the background of Malthus' work and its influence on the development of Darwin's theory.
ReplyDeleteFirst off, note that Malthus did NOT develop the concept of "origin of species". That was all Darwin. In fact, Malthus was strongly opposed to the idea of evolution in general and would have been horrified to learn that his work provided a crucial key stone to Darwin's ideas.
Malthus was an economist who was also very concerned about the problems related to overpopulation. He understood that populations had the potential of growing exponentially, which resources tended to grow at a slower, arithmetic rate. He noticed that natural populations of animals never seemed to overpopulate their available resources. It was as if some natural force was limiting their population size. He then compared natural populations to human populations and recognized that humans seemed to be lacking this natural force (whatever it was) and as a result, humans seemed to outgrow their available resources. Malthus argued that unless humans self-regulated their reproduction (he was a huge proponent of birth control), other processes, such as famine, disease and war, would be the natural result, forcing us to cut our populations via mass death.
A real cheerful guy.
Now out of all that, what caught Darwin's attention was the reference to that natural force that limited natural populations, and it made Darwin ask what was limiting the reproduction of those organisms. Malthus' emphasis on resources gave him the key... it was competition for those resources that limited population numbers. The next question was whether the limited force was random or directed. The answer was that it was directed by the environment, with those organisms with the best "fit" in that environment competing best for those resources and having more reproductive success, passing on more of those successful genes. Conversely, those who were less fit would have few (or no) offspring, and the next generation would have more of the "good" genes and less of the "bad". That describes the process of natural selection.
"Darwin's exploration on the Galapagos finches and their snout adjustments mirror Malthus' impact."
Darwin returned from his trip on the Beagle in 1836. He didn't read Malthus' work until 1838, so it isn't possible for his ideas to have influenced Darwin in the Galapogus.
This second section asked you to select the bullet points from the guidelines that can be directly attributed to Malthus. I don't see where you do that. The two that apply are the first (populations grow exponentially) and the third (resources are limited).
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I agree with your conclusion in the next section but your reasoning needs to be clarified a bit. At the time Darwin read Malthus' essay, Darwin had collected a mountain of specimens and data on his voyage on the Beagle, but couldn't figure out how to put it all together into a cohesive theory. Malthus concept of resource competition was key. Even Darwin himself seems to indicate just how important Malthus was to his work in his writings:
"... it at once struck me that under these circumstances favourable variations would tend to be preserved, and unfavourable ones to be destroyed. The results of this would be the formation of a new species. Here, then I had at last got a theory by which to work".
Charles Darwin, from his autobiography. (1876)
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/malthus.html
"Honestly the church had a big impact because it held Darwin from letting out his theory later then he wanted to. "
How did the church do this? The church didn't know Darwin existed until after he published, so it couldn't have directly prevented Darwin from publishing. That doesn't mean the church didn't play a role in Darwin's decision to delay. Darwin delayed publishing for more than 20 years. The question is, why? And how did the influence of the church play a role in this delay? What were Darwin's concerns? Could he have been negatively impacted, either socially or professionally? And was he only worried about himself or was he also worried about how his family might be impacted by publishing? Remember that his wife was very devout. How might she have been impacted if the church responded negatively to Darwin? Recognize that scientists don't work in a vacuum. They can be influenced not just by academics but also by social, cultural and personal issues.
i just saw this thank you for correcting me
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