Survival’s Origins Darwin uses the phrase “survival of the fittest” in chapter four of On the Origin of Species to describe the process of natural selection. But he did not coin the phrase.

Using "survival of the fittest" would do away with that misconception. Darwin agreed. Beginning with the fifth edition of his book, he wrote "Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest," fully ...

The authors remind us of these overlooked theories and challenge the idea that Darwinism offers such easy solutions as “survival of the fittest” in any case.

Charles Darwin popularized the concept of survival of the fittest as a mechanism underlying the natural selection that drives the evolution of life. Organisms with genes better suited to the ...

Darwin was very clear about the weakness of the survival-of-the-fittest argument and the strength of his “sympathy hypothesis” when he wrote: “Those communities which included the greatest ...

Mariela Gantchoff, a forest resources/wildlife and fisheries doctoral student from Argentina, participated Saturday in a "Survival of the Fittest" dodgeball tournament at MSU's Joe Frank Sanderson ...

As Charles Darwin observed on the Galapagos Islands, only the fittest survive – and this applies to the CEO seat too. At any given moment about 15 percent of current CEOs are in their freshman ...

Economists and business gurus have stressed ideas such as competition and individualism, to the point where “survival of the fittest” has become something of a mantra.

And yet, somehow, sloths have been hanging on in one form or another for 64 million years. To understand this quirky animal, 60 Minutes hung out with a quirky zoologist. Lucy Cooke has been ...