survival of the fittest
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survival of the fittest
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Coined by English philosopher and political theorist Herbert Spencer in 1864 after reading Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, and used by Darwin himself in subsequent editions of that work. In the expression, fittest means “best fitted to the environment”, not “strongest, fastest, or most physically fit”.
noun
- Natural selection. Slow though the process of selection may be, if feeble man can do much by artificial selection, I can see no limit to the amount of change, to the beauty and complexity of the coadaptations between all organic beings, one with another and with their physical conditions of life, which may have been e
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noun natural selection
| Español | supervivencia del más apto |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 適者生存 tekisha-seizon |
| 中文 | 最適者生存 /最适者生存 zuìshìzhě shēngcún, 適者生存 /适者生存 shìzhěshēngcún, 弱肉強食 /弱肉强食 ruòròuqiángshí |
| Português | sobrevivência do mais apto, sobrevivência do mais forte |
| Français | survie du plus apte |
| Deutsch | Überleben der Bestangepassten |
| Русский | выжива́ние сильне́йших vyživánije silʹnéjšix |
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