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The concept of 'survival of the fittest' was first advocated by-

The concept of 'survival of the fittest' was first advocated by-
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Answer is : Spencer

Herbert Spencer first used the phrase, after reading Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, in his Principles of Biology (1864), in which he drew parallels between his own economic theories and Darwin's biological ones: \"This survival of the fittest, which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called 'natural selection', or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life.

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Sachin Khr
answered Nov 19 '2016 at 16:7

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