Archive for October 13th, 2008
Over the next X number of days (hopefully all of them!) I’ll be recapping the day with The Good, the Bad, and the Insightful, a feature dedicated to rooting out the good in blogging/journalism, the bad in aforementioned blogging/journalism, and something truly insightful: usually just a quote from a blogger or journalist that proves to [...]
From the Telgraph blog Ways and Means:
Thomas Robert Malthus’ Essay on the Principle of Population was already well-known, indeed highly controversial, in 1838. But when Darwin read it in October that year, he saw something that no-one else had.
Malthus’ argument was deceptively simple known. Populations increase geometrically (1, 2, 4, 8, 16, etc) whereas the [...]
