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By the statement 'survival of the fittes...

By the statement 'survival of the fittest', Darwin meant that

A

the strongest of all species survives

B

the most intelligent of the species survives

C

the cleaverest of the species survives

D

the species most adaptatble to changes survives.

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D
The organism which are provided with favourable variations would survive, because they are the fittest to face their surroundings. While the unfit are eliminated. Originally it was an idea or Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) who used the phase the survival of the fittest first time while Darwin named it as natural selection.
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