NURSING ANM AND GNM

Detailed explanation-1: -Herbert Spencer (1820–1903) was an English philosopher who initiated a philosophy called ‘Social Darwinism’. He coined the term ‘survival of the fittest’ seven years before Darwin’s publication of his theory of natural history, The Origin of the Species in 1859.

Detailed explanation-2: -Herbert Spencer: Survival of the Fittest Theory. As Spencer viewed human evolution, he postulated that successful individuals deserve their rewards and unsuccessful individuals deserve their failures.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Principles of Biology by Herbert Spencer (1864) looked at biology in terms of themes, such as Function, Adaptation and Variation. In this book Spencer introduced the expression ‘survival of the fittest’, in the sense of ‘the most appropriate to its environment’.

Detailed explanation-4: -The phrase “survival of the fittest“, which was coined not by Darwin but by the philosopher Herbert Spencer, is widely misunderstood.

Detailed explanation-5: -In the fifth edition of the Origin (published in 1869), Darwin began using the phrase “survival of the fittest”, which had been coined a few years earlier by British economist Herbert Spencer, as shorthand for natural selection.