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The phrase ‘Survival of the fittest’ as ...

The phrase ‘Survival of the fittest’ as a way of describing the mechanism of natural selection was coined by `"__________"`.

A

Louis Pasteur

B

Charled Babbage

C

Herbert Spencer

D

Marie Curie

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Herbert Spencer initiated a philosophy of “Social Darwinism”. He was the one who coined this term “survival of the fittest” seven years before Darwin published his theory of natural history.
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