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"It was never survival of the fittest- it is survival of the most adapted to a situation" Isn't that exactly what "fittest" means? First definition from Oxfor
by rfrey 10y ago
"It was never survival of the fittest- it is survival of the most adapted to a situation"
Isn't that exactly what "fittest" means? First definition from Oxford: "of a suitable quality, standard, or type to meet the required purpose."
- prof_hobart 10y agoIt's one of the meanings, and presumably the one that was in mind when the term was coined. But an awful lot of people seem to take it to mean the other sense - "in good health, especially because of regular physical exercise", and extrapolate that out to mean that it's always the strongest/fastest etc that survive.