Herbert Spencer, English biologist, anthropologist, sociologist, and philosopher (born 1820)

Herbert Spencer

English philosopher and political theorist (1820–1903)

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 (1864) after reading Charles Darwin's 1859 book On the…