"Herbert Spencer," he said. Herbert Spencer (27 April ... wrote about the dramatic effect of reading both the naturalist Charles Darwin and Spencer. "I remember that light came as in a flood ...

The “survival of the fittest” – that muscular phrase taken from Herbert Spencer – would seem to suggest not ... ground and a future all the more vital for being uncertain. Charles Darwin, On the ...

Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural ... the phrase 'survival of the fittest', borrowed from philosopher Herbert Spencer. The phrase has become shorthand for Darwin's idea.

Just two weeks before he died, Charles Darwin wrote a short paper ... the fittest (a phrase coined by the philosopher Herbert Spencer, not by Darwin), then sexual selection is reproduction of ...

How Darwin changed the world Darwin’s finches ... The idea is most commonly credited to evolutionary philosopher Herbert Spencer, who coined the term “survival of the fittest” and is often ...

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 ...