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Meaning of survival of the fittest | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

Natural selection.

uncountable

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Examples

“Slow though the process of selection may be, if feeble man can do much by artificial selection, I can see no limit to the amount of change, to the beauty and complexity of the coadaptations between all organic beings, one with another and with their physical conditions of life, which may have been effected in the long course of time through nature's power of selection, that is by the survival of the fittest.”
“Welcome to this urban life / Welcome to my city / Survival of the fittest / Is never very pretty”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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