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survival of the fittest



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"The process is just a little bit survival of the fittest," Highton says.

From BBC • May 22, 2026

New CEO Greg Abel might favor survival of the fittest.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026

Watching Springer play game after game and inning after inning is like a survival of the fittest.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2024

The researchers hypothesized that the limited shapes observed in nature reflected "survival of the fittest," and that the many possible shapes not observed in real fungi were, for some reason, weaker evolutionary rejects.

From Science Daily • Mar. 25, 2024

But I told myself that in nature it’s survival of the fittest.

From "Crenshaw" by Katherine Applegate




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