MCQ : “Survival of the Fittest” was used by

Question

1. Charles Darwin
2. Jean Baptiste Lamarck
3. Herbert Spencer
4. Hugo de Vries.

Answer

Herbert Spencer

Explanation:

The phrase “survival of the fittest” was first coined by Herbert Spencer, an English philosopher and social theorist who was a contemporary of Charles Darwin. Spencer used the phrase in his book “Principles of Biology,” which was published in 1864, several years after the publication of Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species.”