Herbert Spencer

Paul Mackin pmackin at clark.net
Mon Dec 28 19:23:11 CST 1998



On Mon, 28 Dec 1998, Spencer Thiel wrote:

> I believe that he was actually the coiner of the phrase "survival of the
> fittest", usually credited to Darwin and now totally assosciated with
> Darwin.  What's that called again?

Sounds right to me. Was Darwin, in calling the process "natural
selection," less sure that the survivors would be the "fittest" or the
"best?"


		P.




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