Its semantics, but generally the best would be taken to refer to a superlative, gold medal at the Olympics. I'd say you just need to be good enough to attend th

Its semantics, but generally the best would be taken to refer to a superlative, gold medal at the Olympics. I'd say you just need to be good enough to attend the Olympics to attend the Olympics as a competitor. Its actually an apt analogy because there are some pretty trash athletes from some countries in some disciplines, some famously so, simply because they didn't have much local competition in their country. Survival of the fittest itself is a tautology, Darwin didn't coin it for the first edition. It doesn't really matter what the convenient slogan is, all of these concepts can be understood mathematically and it isn't the single individual or species with the highest fitness value that persists on whatever time scale is of interest.