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To: stormer; Gordon Greene
If YOU read Darwin you will not find the phrase “survival of the fittest

Yes you will. Darwin fully approved of the phrase.

40 posted on 08/10/2009 2:10:44 AM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode (<<== Click here to learn about Evolution!)
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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode
My point is that Darwin did not, to the surprise of many, coin this phrase. It appears in the 5th edition of Origins and he attributes Herbert Spencer. In this use, it refers merely to the likelihood that the best adapted individuals in a population will be most reproductively successful. It has nothing to do with Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, or the Man in the Moon. It's BIOLOGY.
52 posted on 08/10/2009 9:09:45 AM PDT by stormer
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