Darwin did not coin the phrase; Herbert Spencer did. Supposedly Darwin detested it, but in time realized that it had so become part of the vernacular that resistance was futile.
"It also says he[Darwin] never wrote "survival of the fittest".
Darwin did not coin the phrase; Herbert Spencer did. Supposedly Darwin detested it, but in time realized that it had so become part of the vernacular that resistance was futile."
He did not coin the phrase or the word eugenics. He did use the phrase in Descent of Man.