"1 ) When Darwin first suggested evolution , he was applying on the basis of `` survival of the fittiest `` and how species tend to `` evolutionate `` from one another .... however none of his arguements were that human came from apes and bacteria ."
"Actually , Darwin did n't like the phrase `` survival of the fittest `` applied to his theory . The phrase was actually coined by sociologist Herbert Spencer in the statement of his social theories . Darwin 's preferred phrase was `` natural selection `` and used the phrase `` survival of the fittest `` only after it had become popular and Alfred Wallace ( a Christian turned spiritualist ) convinced Darwin that he would avoid confusion by using it . If one wants to reduce the hundreds of pages of theory that Darwin wrote to a single sound bite , `` differential reproductive success `` is probably the best . Further , natural selection was a proposed mechanism to explain the observed divergence of species . Darwin was quite aware of the implications of his theory for mankind from the beginning . He was also aware that it would be unpopular with the Church and the religious so he did n't mention it in On the Origin of Species . He waited until the theories expressed in that book had become generally accepted in the scientific community and then published The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex . In the later book Darwin did argue that mankind shared a common ancestor with apes ."
"he was applying on the basis of `` survival of the fittiest ``"
"Darwin did n't like the phrase `` survival of the fittest"