Herbert Spencer
✶April 27, 1820
†December 8, 1903
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†December 8, 1903
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Herbert Spencer was an English polymath active as a philosopher, psychologist, biologist, sociologist, and anthropologist. Spencer originated the expression "survival of the fittest", which he coined in Principles of Biology (1864) after reading Charles Darwin's 1859 book On the Origin of Species. The term strongly suggests natural selection, yet Spencer saw evolution as extending into realms of sociology and ethics, so he also supported Lamarckism.
English philosopher and political theorist (1820–1903)
Biography from the article Herbert Spencer on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.