From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Lawson (Lawson) Tait
Date:
22 Feb [1876]
Source of text:
Randall House, Santa Barbara (dealers) (Catalogue XXV, 1993)
Summary:
Herbert Spencer invented the term "survival of the fittest". CD used it but found "natural selection" more convenient.
He has often spoken of natural selection’s destruction of individuals which do not come up to "proper standards of structure", which comes to nearly the same thing as RLT’s suggested distinction.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project