Who came up with the phrase “survival of the fittest?”
While many people associate this phrase with Darwinism, and rightfully so, it was actually coined by the English sociologist Herbert Spencer (1820-1903). It is one of the principles of Darwin’s Natural Selection theory that basically says that animals that are less well-adapted to their environment are less likely to survive (and propagate their species) than are better-adapted animals.
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