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It was mentioned that Darwin never used the phrase 'survival of the fittest' in his original text, but instead used the phrase 'survival of the fit.' This is in contrast to the commonly used phrase, 'survival of the fittest,' which is actually a phrase that came from Herbert Spencer.
That's from Darwin. That's the last, the last in origin of the species.
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It was mentioned that Darwin never used the phrase 'survival of the fittest' in his original text, but instead used the phrase 'survival of the fit.' This is in contrast to the commonly used phrase, 'survival of the fittest,' which is actually a phrase that came from Herbert Spencer.
That's from Darwin. That's the last, the last in origin of the species.
He did not say that. He said survival of the fit, which means fit to place, fit to your community, fit to your because he understood, you know, studying evolution and all coming up with natural selection as a he understood that organisms don't just move into a place.
And Darwin himself eventually borrowed and added Spencer's words, survival of the fittest, starting with the fifth edition of his history making work.