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Definition of Survival of the fittest
1. Noun. A natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment.
Generic synonyms: Action, Activity, Natural Action, Natural Process
Definition of Survival of the fittest
1. Noun. Natural selection. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Survival Of The Fittest
Literary usage of Survival of the fittest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (1909)
"CHAPTER IV NATURAL SELECTION; OR THE survival of the fittest Natural Selection—its
power compared with man's ..."
2. Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (1902)
"CHAPTER IV NATURAL SELECTION; OR THE survival of the fittest Natural Selection:
its power compared with man's selection; its power on characters of trifling ..."
3. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"CHAPTER IV NATURAL SELECTION; OR THE survival of the fittest Natural Selection—its
power compared with man's selection—its power on characters of trifling ..."
4. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1902)
"OF NATURAL SELECTION; OR THE survival of the fittest From the <Origin of Species'
writers have misapprehended or objected to the term v^ Natural Selection. ..."
5. MERRIE ENGLAND by Robert Blatchford (1895)
"Or, as the most vivid example I can give you of the great law of the survival of
the fittest, let me remind you that Brigham Young was a prophet and a ruler ..."
6. The Popular Science Monthly (1885)
"And so also with the principle of the " survival of the fittest"; it is a formula
of Herbert Spencer, adopted by him to represent the same idea that Mr. ..."
7. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1885)
"And so also with the principle of the " survival of the fittest"; it ia a formula
of Herbert Spencer, adopted by him to represent the same idea that Mr. ..."
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