SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST


Meaning of SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST in English

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 ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .