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" This preservation of favourable individual differences and variations, and the destruction of those which are injurious, I have called Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest. "
Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 93, no. 6) - Page 480
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The American Naturalist, Volume 28

1894 - 1218 pages
...have the best chance of surviving and of procreating their kind ?" "This preservation of favorable individual differences and variations, and the destruction of those which are injurious, I have called Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest." This, then, is Darwinism — that...
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The Problem of Human Life: Embracing the "evolution of Sound" and "evolution ...

Alexander Wilford Hall - 1880 - 544 pages
...arise and are beneficial to the being under its conditions of life." "This preservation of favorable individual differences and variations and the destruction of those which are injurious [like a toothless upper jaw] I have called natural selection or the survival of the fittest." "Natural...
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The Imperial dictionary, on the basis of Webster's English dictionary, Volume 3

John Ogilvie - 1883 - 830 pages
...fittest ; the preservation by their descendants of useful variations arising in animals or plant*. This preservation of favourable individual differences...and the destruction of those which Are injurious, I have called Natttral S*ltctu>n, or the Survival of the Fittest. . . . Several writers have misapprehended...
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The Imperial Dictionary of the English Language: A Complete ..., Volume 4

John Ogilvie - 1883 - 834 pages
...fittest; the preservation by their descendants of useful variations arising in animals or plants. This preservation of favourable individual differences...and the destruction of those which are Injurious, I have called Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest. . . . Several writers ha ve misapprehended...
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On the Origin of Species: By Means of Natural Selection, Or, the ...

Charles Darwin - 1883 - 494 pages
...we may feel sure that any variation in the least degree injurious would be rigidly destroyed. This preservation of favourable individual differences...and the destruction of those which are injurious, I have called Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest. Variations neither useful nor injurious...
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The Irish ecclesiastical record

Irish ecclesiastical record - 1884 - 840 pages
...we may feel sure that any variation in the least degree injurious would be rigidly destroyed. This preservation of favourable individual differences...and the destruction of those which are injurious, I have called natural selection, or the survival of the fittest." These extracts contain the principles...
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The Microcosm: The Organ of Substantial Philosophy, Volume 8

1891 - 208 pages
...variations which are " beneficial," while he repeatedly tells us tiiat "This preserv,,tii'n of favorable Individual differences and variations, and the destruction of those which are injurious [such as partly developed wings, which could be of no service,] I have called natural selection or...
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The Ethical Import of Darwinism

Jacob Gould Schurman - 1887 - 292 pages
...under the actual conditions of existence. Or, in Darwin's own words, " This preservation of favorable individual differences and variations, and the destruction of those which are injurious, I have called Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest." The process, therefore, does not...
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Animal Life and Intelligence

Conwy Lloyd Morgan - 1891 - 544 pages
...we may feel sure that any variation in the least degree injurious would be rigidly destroyed. This preservation of favourable individual differences...and the destruction of those which are injurious, I have called Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest. Variations neither useful nor injurious...
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Darwin, His Work and Influence: A Lecture Delivered in the Hall of Christ's ...

Ernest Albert Parkyn - 1894 - 52 pages
...place to give in his own words Darwin's definition of Natural Selection. It is as follows : " This preservation of favourable individual differences...and the destruction of those which are injurious, I have called Natural Selection, or Survival of the "Fittest." "It may metaphorically be said that...
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