The phrase "survival ... fittest" functions principally in evolutionary theory to describe the biological concept of natural selection. English naturalist, geologist, and biologist Charles Darwin ...

Few phrases in science are as influential as Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theory of 'survival of the fittest'. The idea is commonly understood to mean that those who are physically dominant ...

134-146 (13 pages) Is there room for weaklings in Darwin’s theory of evolution? The “survival of the fittest” – that muscular phrase ... and a future all the more vital for being uncertain. Charles ...