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We're also looking at survival of the fittest, not in just competition terms in our modern context of destroy the other or beat them to the ground, but really to fit together and build niches and have growth that is good.
And when I talk about Darwinian evolution, I mean one thing and one thing only, and that is survival of the fittest.
And all I wanted to show you is we can set up molecules in membranes, in real cells, and then it sets up a kind of molecular Darwinism, a molecular survival of the fittest.
Natural selection is survival of the fittest.
Then I looked on the list of fittest cities, and we were on that list.
We were on the list as the 22nd fittest city in the United States.
And the central, but not all-important, role of competition and survival of the fittest shrinks just a little bit to make room.
Then, of course, there's the struggle for life, the survival of the fittest, social Darwinism.
Instead, random genetic mutations cause some giraffes to be born with longer necks, and that gives them a better chance to survive than the ones who weren't so lucky, which brings us to "survival of the fittest".
In a flash, he realizes how species could emerge and evolve slowly, through this process of the survival of the fittest.
They've been saddled with a name that speaks of sin and damned for their languorous lifestyle, which people seem to think has no place amongst the fittest in the fast-paced race for survival.
He explained to them that it was not a question of survival of the fittest; it was a question of understanding what they needed to survive and to protect that.
It is in short, a time of survival of the fittest.
The constant attention towards competition, survival of the fittest, and determination towards top performance can easily drive the sanest employee into an early stage of insanity.
The plot is survival of the fittest, and only one species will survive.
Illegality and wrongdoing were artfully cloaked as an incontrovertible, science-tested natural law, "the survival of the fittest."
It just uses random variation and selection of the fittest, over and over again.
In his words, the human condition is not about "survival of the fittest" but "the fitting of as many as can survive."
”The Gospel of Wealth” is based on the premise that business competition results in “survival of the fittest” – the fittest being those endowed with the most “talent for organization.”
The laissez-faire argument against income redistribution invokes the doctrine of the survival of the fittest.
In any case, there is something wrong with making the survival of the fittest a guiding principle of civilized society.
Cooperation is as much a part of the system as competition, and the slogan "survival of the fittest" distorts this fact.
But, guided by the principle of the survival of the fittest, states are increasingly preoccupied with their competitiveness and unwilling to make any sacrifices for the common good.
Capitalism advanced the human condition, said Schumpeter, through a “perennial gale of creative destruction,” which he likened to a Darwinian process of natural selection to secure the “survival of the fittest.”
In his seminal work on evolution, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life, Charles Darwin used the much-cited expression “survival of the fittest.”
But to squeeze cultural excellence into the group of characteristics defining “the fittest” is not so easy and requires some leap of faith.
A more level playing field, achieved by a gradual increase in the level of harmonization that is driven by both institutions and markets, will in the end provide a better opportunity for the fittest to survive.
Herbert Spencer used the phrase “survival of the fittest” to explain how societies evolve.
Indeed, social Darwinism provided a pseudo-scientific justification for the American belief in laissez-faire (with the successful businessman epitomizing the survival of the fittest); for eugenics (the deliberate attempt to breed superior individuals, on the model of horse-breeding, and prevent the “over-breeding” of the unfit); and for the eugenic-cum-racial theories of Nazism.
"And for the place of combat, I hold the fittest to be the lists of Saint George belonging to this Preceptory, and used by us for military exercise."