Word: fittest
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...Western cultures, that attitude did not survive the '70s and all the exuberant liberations attending. By the time the Reagan era dawned and a new Gilded Age beckoned, women were invited to swagger as much as they liked. For men and women, a global economy meant survival of the fittest, which did not involve playing down one's skills and gifts and certainties...
...event was joyful but also fiercely competitive. When the music stopped, students piled onto chairs in a struggle of survival of the fittest...
...rugby players,” Kingston recalls. “That was the beginning of it.”Under Kingston’s leadership, their technical skill level peaked, according to Birch. In his decade of coaching at Harvard, Kingston said that this team was composed of the fittest set of athletes he had ever seen.During virtually every season between 1982 and 1984, the team welcomed two or three “very good” athletes from other sports, which according to Kingston allowed the team to build momentum. Being a club sport worked in the team?...
...theory of evolution is supposed to include the survival of the fittest and adapt or die, yet environmentalists rail against the extinction of certain species, the natural result of evolution. Their efforts to stop this natural process leads one to ask, just who do they think they are? God? Ian Stuart, DINGWALL, SCOTLAND...
Many associate Darwin with game theory, genes and the survival of the fittest. But, University of Cambridge Professor Emeritus Gillian Beer, spoke last night of a creative and empathetic Darwin who wondered at the inner lives of oysters. Beer’s talk, entitled “Darwin and the Consciousness of Others,” acknowledged the popular view that Darwin is “the man who banished mind from the universe.” But, instead of a man who saw only mechanistic natural selection, Beer said that Darwin was preoccupied with similarities of consciousness between creatures...