AP BIOLOGY

EVOLUTION

DARWIN’S THEORY OF NATURAL SELECTION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What is another name for natural selection?
A
survival of the smartest
B
survival of the fastest
C
survival of the biggest
D
survival of the fittest
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -In this page you can discover 17 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for survival-of-the-fittest, like: law-of-the-jungle, social-darwinism, punctuated-equilibrium, natural-selection, natural law, organic evolution, phylogeny, social evolution, theory of evolution, survival and evolutionism.

Detailed explanation-2: -In the first four editions of On the Origin of Species, Darwin had used the phrase “natural selection". In Chapter 4 of the 5th edition of The Origin published in 1869, Darwin implies again the synonym: “Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest".

Detailed explanation-3: -survival of the fittest, term made famous in the fifth edition (published in 1869) of On the Origin of Species by British naturalist Charles Darwin, which suggested that organisms best adjusted to their environment are the most successful in surviving and reproducing.

Detailed explanation-4: -For Darwin and his contemporaries, natural selection was in essence synonymous with evolution by natural selection.

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