Well my daughter once asked my wife if she remembered dinosaurs, I responded with a hearty 'Yes'. I'm two years younger than my wife.
Seriously, I'm 50.
Not so seriously I feel 80.
You've got two years on me.
The reason I asked, and not to dredge this issue up again, is because this is the second time someone has made reference to the meaning of terms/concepts/relationships in "earlier times," and in both cases, I find myself in agreement.
Survival of the fittest, from my recollection, was virtually interchangeable with natural selection, since at the very least, they both described a conclusion of the same event in practical terms.
Primordial soup, if memory serves me correctly, was the other time someone brought this issue up, and again, I have to agree that it was taught as being inferred by the theory. Certainly, there was no effort, or campaign like there is today, to disassociate the two...or in the case of the former term, to distinguish the differences, if any....and I'd be willing to bet that the vast majority of people who grew up circa 1960's probably have similar recollections.
Anyway, that's why I asked, and thanks for the response.