survival of the fittest
nounEtymology
Coined by English philosopher and political theorist Herbert Spencer in 1864 after reading Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, and used by Darwin himself in subsequent editions of that work. In the expression, fittest means “best fitted to the environment”, not “strongest, fastest, or most physically fit”.
Definitions
Natural selection.
- Welcome to this urban life / Welcome to my city / Survival of the fittest / Is never very pretty
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for survival of the fittest. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA