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Darwin quotation - did he really say it!
Author:	Arthur Weiss
Date:	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	31128
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	31189
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	31192
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	31171
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	31172
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	31144
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	31129
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	31133
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	31168
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	31175
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	31137
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	31412
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	31426
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	31429

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