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IN order to make it clear how, as I believe, natural selection acts, I must beg permission to give one or two imaginary illustrations. Let us take ... In cases of this kind, if the variation were of a beneficial nature, the original form would soon be supplanted by the modified form, through the survival of the fittest.
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This preservation of favourable individual differences and variations, and the destruction of those which are injurious, I have called Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest.
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Natural selection - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Natural selection is the process by which heritable traits that make it more likely for an organism to survive and successfully reproduce become more common in a population over successive generation...
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Natural selection is the survival of the fittest. The fittest are those that survive. Therefore, evolution by natural selection is a tautology (a circular definition). ... The phrase 'survival of the fittest' was not even Darwin's. It was urged on him by Wallace, the codiscoverer of natural selection,
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Despite misgivings by Alfred Wallace and other naturalists, Charles Darwin began to use "survival of the fittest" as a synonym for "natural selection" in the 5th edition of Origin of Species, which was published in 1869.
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Returning to the subject of natural selection having played any role in this grand, yet bizarre scheme of things, we beg the naturalists ... Why, again, is it only the female mosquitoes which feed on the blood of hosts while both male and female feed on nectar and other plant sugars as a common source of their survival?
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in the anthropological sense? ... In natural selection, survival of the fittest is when the species is able to pass on desireable hereditary traits/genes to future generations. Anthropologically (humans) speaking it has to be similar, passing these traits for survival.
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So, what is wrong with the statement "Natural Selection is Survival of the Fittest"? ... "Natural selection is survival of the fittest" does not fit very well as a definition. It should be selected against. Naturally.
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Survival of the fittest - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Survival of the fittest" is a phrase which is commonly used in contexts other than intended by its first two proponents - British polymath philosopher Herbert Spencer (who coined the term) and Cha...
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