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Darwin quotation - did he really say it!

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Arthur Weiss

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Tuesday, 18th Jan 2005 08:43

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Hi

Does anybody know where this quotation actually comes from:
"It's not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change"?

It is always attributed to Charles Darwin - but I've searched "The Origin of Species" and the "Voyage of the Beagle" as held on Project Gutenberg and I can't find the quotation in either. So, what is the actual source of the quotation - or is it just another "urban legend" that Darwin said it. If so, who did first say it!

Thanks
Arthur

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•	Darwin quotation - did he really say it!
	Hi Does anybody know where this quotation actually comes from: "It's not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but ...

Arthur Weiss

18/01/05 08:43

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•	Re: Darwin quotation - did he really say it!
	Does anybody know where this quotation actually comes from: "It's not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, ...

Lari Law

25/01/05 10:45

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•	Re: Darwin quotation - did he really say it!
	Whoever it was, they didn't understand Darwinism. Species don't 'survive' by 'changing', by changing they become different species. The species that ...

Rob

25/01/05 15:56

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•	Re: Darwin quotation - did he really say it!
	There is a item on changezone called Change Leadership that attributes the quotation to Darwin and names Origin of the ...

Steve

21/01/05 12:00

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•	Re: Darwin quotation - did he really say it!
	I should have said that the reference to the quote appears at the end of the section entitled Balancing the ...

Steve

21/01/05 12:02

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•	Re: Darwin quotation - did he really say it!
	Another indication that it wasn't Darwin - this site doesn't throw it up either http://pages.britishlibrary.net/charles.darwin/...

Sue H

18/01/05 17:42

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•	Re: Darwin quotation - did he really say it!
	Not off the top of my head, but I'm pretty sure that it's mentioned in Bill Brysons' Short History of ...

Gareth

18/01/05 09:59

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•	Re: Darwin quotation - did he really say it!
	Thanks Gareth That's what I've been thinking - that it was just attributed to Darwin, and that Darwin never wrote ...

Arthur Weiss

18/01/05 11:18

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•	Re: Darwin quotation - did he really say it!
	Speaking as a Chartered Statistican, your attribution of "lies, damned lies and statistics to either Mark Twain or Benjamin ...

Martin Price

21/01/05 11:48

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•	Re: Darwin quotation - did he really say it!
	Hi It's ironic that my example of a mis-attribution was also wrong (or possibly wrong). In fact it may still have ...

Arthur Weiss

21/01/05 13:37

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•	Re: Darwin quotation - did he really say it!
	Ha-ha! Bit of googling later... Herbert Spencer Principles of Biology (1864 - 1867). Spencer wrote, "The survival of the fittest which I ...

Gareth

18/01/05 12:47

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•	Re: Darwin quotation - did he really say it!
	It would be good to resolve this quote & also get an evolutionists opinion to its veracity and theoretical accuracy ...

Grant

16/02/05 13:06

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•	Re: Darwin quotation - did he really say it!
	In other words it's the survival of those most fitted to their environment, rather than of the fittest in health ...

Hilary

17/02/05 12:36

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•	Re: Darwin quotation - did he really say it!
	I know the original question was whether or not Darwin really said these words - it remains moot and the ...

Grant

18/02/05 00:03

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