survival of the fittest

survival of the fittest
noun
a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment
• Hypernyms: ↑natural process, ↑natural action, ↑action, ↑activity

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1. (not in technical use) natural selection.
2. 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.
[1860-65]

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survival of the fittest
The longer average life of the best adapted members of a (esp animal) community in the struggle for existence, and the consequent transmission of healthy or otherwise favourable characteristics to later generations
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Main Entry: ↑survive

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survival of the fittest phrase
the idea that your survival depends on competing successfully within your environment with other creatures of your own type

In business, it’s the survival of the fittest.

Thesaurus: evolutionhyponym
Main entry: survival

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survival of the fittest,
Biology. the fact or the principle that those organisms which are best adapted to their environment continue to live and pass on their favorable features to their offspring, while those of the same or related species which are less adapted perish; the process or result of natural selection.

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Biology the continued existence of organisms that are best adapted to their environment, with the extinction of others, as a concept in the Darwinian theory of evolution. Compare with natural selection

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survival of the fittest
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— used to refer to a situation in which only the people or things that are strongest, most skillful, etc., are able to succeed or to continue to exist

In the business world, it's survival of the fittest.

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Main Entry: ↑survival

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  • survival of the fittest — {n. phr.} The staying alive or in action of the best prepared; often: idea that those living things best able to adjust to life survive and those unable to adjust die out. * /Life in the old West was often a case of survival of the fittest./ *… …   Dictionary of American idioms

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  • survival of the fittest — ► survival of the fittest Biology the continued existence of the organisms best adapted to their environment; natural selection. Main Entry: ↑survival …   English terms dictionary

  • survival of the fittest — survival of the fittest. См. выживание наиболее приспособленных. (Источник: «Англо русский толковый словарь генетических терминов». Арефьев В.А., Лисовенко Л.А., Москва: Изд во ВНИРО, 1995 г.) …   Молекулярная биология и генетика. Толковый словарь.

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  • Survival of the fittest — For other uses, see Survival of the fittest (disambiguation). Herbert Spencer coined the phrase, survival of the fittest. Survival of the fittest is a phrase which is commonly used in contexts other than intended by its first two proponents:… …   Wikipedia

  • Survival of the Fittest — Herbert Spencer, der Urheber des Begriffs „Survival of the Fittest“ „Survival of the Fittest“ bedeutet im Sinne der Darwin’schen Evolutionstheorie das Überleben der bestangepassten Individuen. Dieser Ausdruck wurde im Jahr 1864 durch den… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

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