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*** said “total relations of an animal to both it organic and inorganic environment”
Ernst Haekel
John Graunt is the father of ***.
demography
Antony van Leewenhoek is known for ***.
rates of animal population increase
Author of Natural History.
Buffon.
Thomas Malthus is the author of ***.
Essay on Population
*** said organisms increase geometrically. Relative food supply never more than arithmetically.
Thomas Malthus
*** said derived equation describing logistic population growth over time.
Pierre-François Verhulst