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Who stated that population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio, while subsistence (food supply) increases only in an arithmetical ratio?

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1Thomas Malthus✓
2Thomas Doubleday
3Warren Thompson
4Frank Notestein

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Thomas Malthus

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