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- adaptation
- Darwinism
- evolution
- law of the jungle
- natural law
- natural selection
- phylogeny
- social evolution
- survival of the fittest
- theory of evolution
- adaptation
- Darwinianism
- Darwinism
- evolution
- evolutionism
- law of the jungle
- natural law
- natural selection
- Neo-Darwinism
- organic evolution
- phylogeny
- punctuated equilibrium
- social Darwinism
- social evolution
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On this page you'll find 44 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to survival fittest, such as: adaptation, artificial selection, biological evolution, darwinian theory, darwinism, and evolution.
How to use survival fittest in a sentence
The moment that we introduce the operation of human volition and activity, that, too, becomes one of the factors of "survival."
THE UNSOLVED RIDDLE OF SOCIAL JUSTICESTEPHEN LEACOCKIn the milk teeth of man we have another useless and often annoying survival of an ancient state of the dental organs.
MAN AND HIS ANCESTORCHARLES MORRISIts most probable explanation is that it appears as a passing survival of the first permanent coat of hair of the lower mammals.
MAN AND HIS ANCESTORCHARLES MORRISThere is great perseverance, aye, moral courage of no mean order, in his survival in the movement.
PRISON MEMOIRS OF AN ANARCHISTALEXANDER BERKMANMr. Douce thinks the custom of choosing valentines was a survival from the Roman feast of the Lupercalia.
CHAUCER'S WORKS, VOLUME 1 (OF 7) -- ROMAUNT OF THE ROSE; MINOR POEMSGEOFFREY CHAUCERBut there is a singular survival and continuity of the ancient practice: men still swear by Jove.
A CURSORY HISTORY OF SWEARINGJULIAN SHARMANOthers, however, see in the custom another survival of marriage by capture.
THE PRIVATE LIFE OF THE ROMANSHAROLD WHETSTONE JOHNSTONIn some cases our East Anglian dialect is merely a survival of old English, as when we say ‘axe’ for ‘ask.’
EAST ANGLIAJ. EWING RITCHIEHaving once originated, the sexual type of reproduction possessed a definite survival value which assured its continuation.
TABOO AND GENETICSMELVIN MOSES KNIGHT, IVA LOWTHER PETERS, AND PHYLLIS MARY BLANCHARDThe custom has the look of an Old Testament survival; but as a matter of fact, we suspect that it is far older than Moses.
THE CRADLE OF MANKINDW.A. WIGRAM