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  • This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.

    'Principles of Biology' (1865) pt. 3, ch. 12, 164.
  • It cannot but happen?that those will survive whose functions happen to be most nearly in equilibrium with the modified aggregate of external forces? This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.

    'Principles of Biology' (1865) pt. 3, ch. 12, 164.
  • The law is the survival of the fittest.... The law is not the survival of the 'better' or the 'stronger,' if we give to those words any thing like their ordinary meanings. It is the survival of those which are constitutionally fittest to thrive under the conditions in which they are placed; and very often that which, humanly speaking, is inferiority, causes the survival.

    "Mr. Martineau on Evolution" (1872) See Darwin 7; Philander Johnson 1; Herbert Spencer 5
  • This survival of the fittest which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called "natural selection", or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life.

    Life  
    The Principles of Biology pt. 3, ch. 12 (1865) See Darwin 7; Philander Johnson 1; Herbert Spencer 6
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Herbert Spencer

  • Born: April 27, 1820
  • Died: December 8, 1903
  • Occupation: Philosopher