The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication
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This preservation, during the battle for life, of varieties which possess any advantage in structure, constitution, or instinct, I have called Natural Selection; and Mr. Herbert Spencer has well expressed the same idea by the Survival of the Fittest. The term natural selection is in some respects a bad one, as it seems to imply conscious choice; but this will be disregarded after a little familiarity.” - Darwin, page 6 of Variations FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE IN
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