Most every day, on my way to work, I drive by my area mall, and it’s a constant reminder that ‘Darwinism’ is alive and well. Charles Darwin wrote in 1882, "This preservation, during the battle for life, of varieties which possess any advantage in structure, constitution, or instinct, I have called Natural Selection.”
Survival of the fittest is an expression that originated from Darwin as a way of describing the mechanism of natural selection. In Darwinian terms the saying is best understood as "Survival of the form that will leave the most copies of itself