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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Natural selection conceived of as a struggle for life in which only those organisms best adapted to existing conditions are able to survive and reproduce.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Natural selection.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Biol.) See Natural selection, under Natural.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment

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  • “The philosophy of the survival of the fittest does not soothe the class-conscious worker when he learns through his class literature that among the Italian pants-finishers of Chicago {9} the average weekly wage is $1.31, and the average number of weeks employed in the year is 27.85.”

    WANTED: A NEW LAW OF DEVELOPMENT

  • “In this latter case I have supposed that the survival of the fittest has come into play with female birds and kept the female dull-coloured.”

    Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences

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  1. natural process
  1. action
  1. activity
  1. natural action

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  1. natural selection
  1. selection
  1. survival
  1. intraselection
  1. Neo-Darwinism
  1. neo-darwinist

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