Can we continue to feed ourselves? a 19th century clergyman by the name of thomas malthus deduced from his studies that for every town, the population grew at a significantly higher rate than food production supporting the population. malthus predicted that in time, starvation would result. the work of malthus played a major role in shaping charles darwin's theory of natural selection. how does the work of malthus hold up when addressing the entire human population? examine the following data set of the world's grain production (unit: million metric tons) from 1965 to 2005, in square kilometers: year world grain production year world grain production (in million metric tons) (in million metric tons 1965 999 1990 1952 1970 1192 1995 1897 1975 1360 2000 2060 1980 1500 2005 2228 1985 1821 there are several ways of relating the population data with the production data. one of the more effective mathematical tools is by calculating grain production on a per capita basis, which in this case means to determine the number of yearly tons of grain produced per one person on earth. e. prepare a list of 5 additional measures of our population that is on a per capita basis. in table f, calculate the per capita grain production for the years 1965 - 2005, in 5-years intervals. next, plot the results of your calculation as year versus per capita grain production on graph g.