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What insight did Darwin gain from reading Thomas Malthus's essay on human suffering?Group of answer choicesOrganisms have the capacity to over reproduce.Favorable characteristics of a population accumulate over time.Natural selection should be capable of considerable modifications over hundreds of thousands of generations.Population size usually remains relatively stable. PreviousNext

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What insight did Darwin gain from reading Thomas Malthus's essay on human suffering?Group of answer choicesOrganisms have the capacity to over reproduce.Favorable characteristics of a population accumulate over time.Natural selection should be capable of considerable modifications over hundreds of thousands of generations.Population size usually remains relatively stable. PreviousNext

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From reading Thomas Malthus's essay on human suffering, Darwin gained the insight that organisms have the capacity to over reproduce. Malthus's essay argued that human populations grow exponentially while food production grows at an arithmetic rate, which would lead to overpopulation and subsequent struggle for resources. This concept played a crucial role in Darwin's theory of natural selection, where he proposed that in nature, more offspring are produced than can survive due to limited resources, leading to a struggle for existence. Those with advantageous traits are more likely to survive and reproduce, passing on these traits to the next generation.

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