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survival of the fittest

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名詞

词源

由哲学家赫伯特·斯宾塞在1864造出，受查爾斯·達爾文的《物種起源》所啟發，並被達爾文用於其之後的版本。

释义

  1. 自然選擇；字面意思為最適者生存、適者生存

    演化論

    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.

    1872, Charles Darwin, “Chapter IV”, in The Origin of Species, Sixth London Edition edition:

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