Herbert Spencer
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Herbert Spencer was an English polymath active as a philosopher, psychologist, biologist, sociologist, and anthropologist. Spencer originated the expression "survival of the fittest", which he coined
Spencer at the age of 73
Spencer as a young man
Spencer's tomb, in Highgate Cemetery, north London
Portrait of Spencer by John Bagnold Burgess, 1871–72
Survival of the fittest
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"Survival of the fittest" is a phrase that originated from Darwinian evolutionary theory as a way of describing the mechanism of natural selection. The biological concept of fitness is defined as repr
Herbert Spencer
…1903) was an English polymath active as a philosopher, psychologist, biologist, sociologist, and anthropologist. Spencer originated the expression "survival of the fittest", which he coined in Principles of Biology (1864) after reading Charles Darwin's 1859 book On the Origin of Species. The term strongly suggests natural…
Herbert Spencer coined the phrase "survival of the fittest".