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struggle for existence
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Struggle for existence
The concept of
struggle for existence
is of competition or battle for resources needed to live. It can refer to human society, or to organisms in nature. The concept is ancient, and was referred to by such phrases as "Nature's war"; the term
struggle for existence
was in use by the end of the 18th century. From the 17th century onwards the concept was associated with population exceeding resources, an issue shown starkly in
Thomas Robert Malthus
’
An Essay on the Principle of Population
which drew on
Benjamin Franklin
's
Observations Concerning the Increase of Mankind, Peopling of Countries, etc.
.
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