Who published the logistic equation model of population growth in 1838?

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1. The logistic population model was first proposed in 1838 by the Belgian mathematician Pierre François Verhulst.
2. Verhulst formulated the logistic differential equation for population growth as

$\displaystyle \frac{dN}{dt}=rN\left(1-\frac{N}{K}\right)$

where $N$ is population size, $r$ the intrinsic growth rate, and $K$ the carrying capacity.
3. The other named individuals are from different periods or contributions: Alfred Russel Wallace was a naturalist (co-discoverer of natural selection), Howard T. Odum and G. E. Hutchinson were 20th-century ecologists — none published the 1838 logistic equation.

FINAL_ANSWER: c

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