On this National Darwin Day, February 12, let's go through his famous theory about the survival of the fittest and how it is related to natural selection. Natural selection describes a biological ...

Evolution has been known as survival of the fittest, however the fittest may also have been simply the luckiest. Though genetics are a driving force of evolution, many evolutionary changes were a ...

In Darwin and Wallace’s time ... Change can also occur by genetic drift or gene flow. What does ‘survival of the fittest’ mean? In terms of evolution, an animal that is ‘fit’ is one that’s adapted to ...

These ideas galvanized Darwin's thinking about the struggles for survival in the wild, where restraint is unknown. Before reading Malthus, Darwin had thought that living things reproduced just ...

Survival of the fittest has become shorthand for Darwinism, but Charles Darwin didn’t actually coin the phrase. Herbert Spencer did, in his 1864 book The Principles of Biology, presenting it as ...