Footnotes to Evolution
- Kind
- Book
- Date
- 2010-09
- Publisher
- Kessinger Publishing
- Retrieved
- Jun 6, 2012
- ISBN
- sGPcYgEACA
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Survival of the Fittest Refined
The process of natural selection has been summed up in the phrase 'survival of the fittest'. This, however, tells only part of the story. 'Survival of the existing' in many cases covers more of the truth. For in hosts of cases the survival of characters rests not on any special usefulness or fitness, but on the fact…