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Questioning Darwin: Re-Thinking "Survival of the Fittest"

Published on September 14, 2010 By sirrahc

Everybody with at least a junior-high education has heard of “survival of the fittest.” It is a common way of expressing Charles Darwin’s proposition of the importance of competitive advantage in the survival of a species. In a nutshell, the theory holds that the way plant and animal groups spread out over the eons was […]