| 单词 | survival of the fittest |
| 释义 | survival of the fittestSEE SYNONYMS FOR survival of the fittest ON THESAURUS.COM noun(not in technical use) natural selection. a 19th-century concept of human society, inspired by the principle of natural selection, postulating that those who are eliminated in the struggle for existence are the unfit. Origin of survival of the fittestFirst recorded in 1860–65 Words nearby survival of the fittestsurvival, survival bag, survival curve, survivalist, survival kit, survival of the fittest, survival value, survive, survivor, survivor guilt, survivorship Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 British Dictionary definitions for survival of the fittestsurvival of the fittest nouna popular term for natural selection Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Idioms and Phrases with survival of the fittestsurvival of the fittest Those best adapted to particular conditions will succeed in the long run, as in They've had to close a dozen of their stores, but the ones in the western part of the state are doing well—it's the survival of the fittest. This phrase was invented by Herbert Spencer in Principles of Biology (1864) to describe Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection of living species. By the early 1900s it was being transferred to other areas. The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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