Approximately 60 years before the now historic publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species in 1859, Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834) penned a commentary on what he perceived to be the destiny of the human population in...

Malthusian catastrophe, sometimes known as a Malthusian check, Malthusian crisis, Malthusian dilemma, Malthusian disaster, Malthusian trap, or Malthusian limit is a return to subsistence-level conditions as a result of agricultural (or, in later...

A review of the Malthusian Theory of Population, which predicted that human population growth would quickly outstrip the Earth's resources to sustain it. Much of the theory has been discredited, but it was the first study of human population that lead to other more useful studies.