Survival of the fittest

survival of the fittest: the concept of natural selection that states that the fittest survive and spread their traits through a population.
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The phrase "survival of the fittest" is often used synonymously with natural selection. The phrase is both incomplete and misleading.
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Synonyms: survival, survival of the fittest, natural selection
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selection - a passage selected from a larger work; "he presented excerpts from William James'' philosophical writings" ...
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The British economist Herbert Spencer coined the phrase "survival of the fittest" (though originally, and perhaps more accurately, "survival of the best fitted") in his 1851 work Social Statics and later used it to characterise what Charles Darwin ...
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So you mean it's basically survival of the fittest?
Yes, there's no question about it. The best, simplest way to look at antibiotic resistance is that it is survival of the fittest.
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The British economist Herbert Spencer coined the phrase "survival of the fittest" in his 1851 work Social Statics and later used it to characterise what Charles Darwin had called natural selection. The British biologist J.B.S.
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Those variants best adapted to the conditions of their life are most likely to survive and reproduce themselves ("survival of the fittest").
To the extent that their adaptations are inheritable, they will be passed on to their offspring.
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Since not all organisms are equally well adapted to their environment, some will survive and reproduce better than others -- this is known as natural selection. Sometimes this is also referred to as "survival of the fittest".
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