survival of the fittest
英语
编辑词源
编辑由哲学家赫伯特·斯宾塞在1864造出，受查尔斯·达尔文的《物种起源》所启发，并被达尔文用于其之后的版本。[1]
名词
编辑- (演化论) 自然选择；字面意思为最适者生存、适者生存
- 1872, Charles Darwin, “Chapter IV”, 出自 The Origin of Species, Sixth London Edition版:
- Slow though the process of selection may be, if feeble man can do much by artificial selection, I can see no limit to the amount of change, to the beauty and complexity of the coadaptations between all organic beings, one with another and with their physical conditions of life, which may have been effected in the long course of time through nature's power of selection, that is by the survival of the fittest.
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编辑来源
编辑- ↑ R. B. Freeman, notes on On the Origin of Species (1977), in The Works of Charles Darwin: An Annotated Bibliographical Handlist, second edition. The relevant sentence of the fifth edition of Darwin's On the Origin of Species is: "This preservation of favourable variations, and the destruction of injurious variations, I call Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest."