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Darwin defines natural selection as preserving favorable differences and destroying injurious ones. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: The Origin of Species (1872), Chapter IV · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:ee76bd6deacfd4111d095616719bd1530f2182e4629f37dba973bbfd30586101

Exact excerpt

This preservation of favourable individual differences and variations, and the destruction of those which are injurious, I have called Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest.

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