Definition of survival:
constancy, choice, eternity, remnant, remainder, relic, extract, stability, vestige, excerption, excerpt, continuity, natural selection, consistency, selection, permanence, endurance, survival of the fittest, option, pick, longevity, preservation.
- "The Black Experience in America The Immigrant Heritage of America", Norman Coombs.
The organism, as a result of the great facts of heredity and of the survival of the fittest, is necessarily a system which gathers experience with successive generations; and the principal lesson ever being impressed upon it by external events is economy.- "The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays", J. (John) Joly.
- "The Bars of Iron", Ethel May Dell.