Herbert Spencer first used the phrase, after reading Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, in his Principles of Biology (1864), in which he drew parallels between his own economic theories and Darwin's biological ones: "This survival of the fittest, which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. In Darwinian terms, the phrase is best understood as "Survival of the form that will leave the most copies of itself in successive generations." The biological concept of fitness is defined as reproductive success. " Survival of the fittest" is a phrase that originated from Darwinian evolutionary theory as a way of describing the mechanism of natural selection. Herbert Spencer coined the phrase "survival of the fittest".
For other uses, see Survival of the fittest (disambiguation).
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