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Richard Clarke Cabot
Richard Clarke Cabot

Richard Clarke Cabot, born on May 21, 1868, and died on May 7, 1939, was an individual of an unknown profession or category. more

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“I fully agree with all that you say on the advantages of Spencer's excellent expression of 'the survival of the fittest.' This, however, had not occurred to me till reading your letter. It is, however, a great objection to this term that it cannot be used as a substantive governing a verb; and that this is a real objection I infer from H. Spencer continually using the words, natural selection.”

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Book:Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)
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“In true natural selection, if a body has what it takes to survive, its genes automatically survive because they are inside it. So the genes that survive tend to be, automatically, those genes that confer on bodies the qualities that assist them to survive.”

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Book:The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design
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