Who coined the phrase "survival of the fittest"?
A
Auguste Comte
B
Charles Darwin
C
Emile Durkheim
D
Herbert Spencer
Correct Answer: Herbert Spencer
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.