Charles Darwin was influenced by the essay on the principles of population written by

Thomas Malthus was an English economist and demographer who wrote an essay in 1798 titled “An Essay on the Principle of Population,” in which he argued that populations tend to grow faster than the resources available to sustain them, leading to competition for resources and eventual population collapse. Charles Darwin was greatly influenced by Malthus’ ideas on population growth and competition for resources. Darwin saw in Malthus's ideas a mechanism for understanding how natural selection could work to shape the evolution of species.