| The term "natural selection" is in some respects a bad one, as it seems to imply conscious choice; but this will be disregarded after a little familiarity | "This preservation of favourable variations, and the destruction of injurious variations, I call Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest |
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| Darwin has called "natural selection", or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life | 444, wrote: 'This survival of the fittest, which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr |
"This preservation of favourable variations, and the destruction of injurious variations, I call Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest.
9| Herbert Spencer; Truxton Beale 1916 , , M | "This preservation, during the battle for life, of varieties which possess any advantage in structure, constitution, or instinct, I have called Natural Selection; and Mr |
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