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MR. DARWIN'S phrase, “natural selection,” is applied to such processes, other than those involving the agency of man, as result under Nature in the survival of the fittest. These processes fall under two heads, which have not, I think, been sufficiently distinguished. For the first of these I here retain the word selection; for the other I suggest the term elimination.
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MORGAN, C. Natural Selection and Elimination 1 . Nature 38, 370 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/038370a0
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