SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does survival of the fittest mean? 

• SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST (noun)
  The noun SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST has 1 sense:

1. a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment

  Familiarity information: SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

natural selection; selection; survival; survival of the fittest

Hypernyms ("survival of the fittest" is a kind of...):

action; activity; natural action; natural process (a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings))

 Context examples 

Thousands of randomly created programs are progressively evolved over time using an evolutionary search based on the principle of survival of the fittest.

(Genetic Programming, NCI Thesaurus)