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.

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