0 the principle that animals and plants suited to the conditions they live in are more likely to stay alive and produce other animals and plants than those that are not suited --
1 the belief that only the people with a strong desire to succeed and the ability to change as conditions change will achieve success: --
Far too many people think that the survival of the fittest is the survival of the beefiest.
And let it be the survival of the fittest, and let the truth prevail.
It is a matter purely of the survival of the fittest.
This is the survival of the fittest and not the fattest.
The challenge comes when we are applying a broad principle, such as survival of the fittest or utility maximization in economics, without undue plasticity or excessive hindsight bias.
Following the principle of survival of the fittest, strings with a higher fitness level have a greater probability of advancing to the next generation of candidate solutions.
What simultaneously had narrowed the options and served up an array of formulations was the survival of the fittest proposals.
The survival of the fittest can be a natural principle, but very few would like to adopt it as an ethical guideline.
