<em>Limited natural resources force individuals to </em><u><em>compete</em></u><em> with each other and only strong individuals are able to compete and thereby reproduce effectively.</em>
According to Malthus, population growth has the capacity to outrun the supply of food, and hence, if humans must experience better living conditions, there should a form of population control by controlling the birth rate.
Darwin extrapolated from Malthus' idea and opined that limited natural resources will only make individuals compete with each other and in this capacity, weak individuals might not be able to effectively compete, thus, leading to weakness in reproducing.
