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Person
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Spencer, Herbert
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Description area
Dates of existence
1820-1903
History
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 after reading Charles Darwin's book On the Origin of Species