they were very smart and they knew what they were doing
Darwin didn't actually use this phrase - Herbert Spencer did. It means simply that traits which allow individual organisms to reproduce successfully will appear disproportionatly in successive generations.Darwin meant nothing by this phrase because it is the work of one Herbert Spencer. Darwin did incooperate it into later editions of the Origin and many think the phrase is misleading.The fit is the organism that enjoys the greatest reproductive success in contrast to it's fellow organisms against the immediate environment. So, their descendents survive and propagate better that the descendents of conspecifics. That is the part that is hincky as the descendents are the beneficiaries of the " survival of the fittest. "
Herbert Spencer
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Herbert Spenser used the phrase first after reading Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species in 1864. Herbert Spenser was a biologist and sociologist and did write about evolution before Charles Darwin
Herbert Stanley was born in 1872.
Herbert Stanley died in 1955.
Herbert Stanley Morris died in 1919.
Herbert Stanley Morris was born in 1892.
Herbert Stanley Tutt has written: 'Caboolture country'
Herbert Stanley Allen has written: 'A text-book of heat'
Stanley Maxted's birth name is Stanley Herbert Maxted.
Herbert Stanley Crane has written: 'Missouri cases' -- subject(s): Annotations and citations (Law)
Herbert Muggleston Stanley has written: 'The petroleum-chemicals industry' -- subject(s): Petroleum products
Herbert Stanley Redgrove has written: 'Alchemy: ancient and modern' -- subject(s): History, Alchemy, Chemistry
Stanley Cohen and Herbert Boyer
Gregor Mendel