On Fri, 05 Jan 2007 16:59:06 +1100, "Stuart Barker (Prof)"
<sbarker At une.edu.au> wrote:
>>I am trying to clarify Darwin's first use of 'survival of the
>fittest', and have found conflicting statements.
>>Christianen and Prout, Chapter 8, "Evolutionary Genetics From
>Molecules to Morphology", eds Singh and Krimbas (2000), Cambridge
>Univ. Press provide a quote from "Origin of Species" 6th Ed, 1872,
>and state that the remark including 'survival of the fittest' was
>added by Darwin in the 6th edition after suggestion and encouragement
>by Thomas Huxley.
>>Dawkins "The Extended Phenotype" (1982), Oxford Univ. Press - p. 179
>states that the term was adopted by Darwin (1866) at the urging of
>Wallace (1866) - with both referenced to letters from Wallace to
>Darwin, and Darwin to Wallace.
>>Both may well be correct, but my question is - if the term was
>adopted by Darwin in the letter to Wallace in 1866, did it appear in
>either the 4th or 5th editions? I do not have access to these 2 editions!
>
They should be online at the new Darwin site:
http://darwin-online.org.uk
bob
