Who was the first scientist to estimate the human population

Darwin

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Malthus

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Garrod

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Vavilor

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Solution

The correct option is B Malthus
Malthus in his "Essay on the principle of population" (1798) pointed out that population tends to increase in geometric progression while food supply increase only in arithmetic progression.

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