MALTHUS AND DARWIN: WORLD VIEWS APART

Darwin, Malthus, and selection.

Survival of the Richest. Malthus, Darwin and Modern Economic Growth

Before 1800 all societies, including England, were Malthusian. The average man or woman had 2 surviving children. Such societies were also Darwinian. Some reproductively successful groups produced more than 2 surviving children, increasing their share of the population, while other groups produced less, so that their share declined. But unusually in England, this selection for men was based on ...

How Darwin shook the world

Atlantic Books have begun to publish this year a series of texts titled ‘Books that shook the world’, which, rightly, includes a new biography of Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species by Janet Browne. And some new shaking definitely seems to be in order. Darwinism appears under increasing challenge as ‘creationism’ and ‘intelligent design’ continue to creep into curricula, particularly in the US a...

The New Views on Demographic Transition: A Reassessment of Malthus and Marx s views on Population

IJEE Soapbox: Darwin, malthus, anD movement: a hiDDen assumption in the Demographic founDations of evolution

We all have our heroes. For myself and, I suspect, many ecologists and evolutionary biologists, Charles Darwin is very high up in the pantheon of truly admirable thinkers and human beings. Few other 19th-century scientists produced books that bear close reading and even re-reading today—yet On the Origin of Species and Darwin’s other volumes certainly do. In honor of this Year of Darwin, and to...