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It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change, that lives within the means available and works co-operatively against

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change, that lives within the means available and works co-operatively against common threats.

Charles Darwin
Mean, Intelligent, Survival

The most important factor in survival is neither intelligence nor strength but adaptability.

Charles Darwin
Survival, Important, Adaptability

This preservation of favourable variations and the destruction of injurious variations, I call Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest. Variations neither useful nor injurious would not be affected by natural selection and would be left a fluctuating element.

Charles Darwin
Science, Survival, Would Be
Charles Darwin (1869). “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life”, p.92

The survival or preservation of certain favoured words in the struggle for existence is natural selection.

Charles Darwin
Struggle, Survival, Natural
Charles Darwin (2007). “The Descent of Man: The Concise Edition”, p.130, Penguin

Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.

Charles Darwin
Mean, Men, Survival
Charles Darwin (2016). “The Descent of Man (Diversion Classics)”, p.807, Diversion Books

It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the "race is for the strong" and that I shall probably do little more but be content to admire the strides others made in science.

Charles Darwin
Strong, Race, Survival
Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.10046, Delphi Classics

We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.

Charles Darwin
Struggle, Science, Survival
On the Origin of Species ch. 3 (1859) See Malthus 2

The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.

Charles Darwin
Expression, Survival, Sometimes
On the Origin of Species, 5th ed., ch. 3 (1869) See Philander Johnson 1; Herbert Spencer 5; Herbert Spencer 6

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