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Who among the following Propounded the theory of the "Survival of the Fittest"?

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Charles Darwin
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Adolf Hitler
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Isaac Newton
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Herbert Spencer
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Solution

The correct option is C Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencer first used the phrase – after reading Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" – in his Principles of Biology of 1864 in which he drew parallels between his economic theories and Darwin's biological, evolutionary ones, writing, "This survival of the fittest".



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