Revlgking wrote:

"Survival of the fittest is a phrase which is a shorthand for a concept relating to competition for survival or predominance".

As you say first used in economics and should have stayed there. Much misused in support of supremacist ideas. If it is true in economics it obviously leads eventually to monopolies, something most free market advocates keep quiet about. The phrase is meaningless in biological evolution. Individuals simply survive and pass on their genes. Not necessarily just the fittest, whatever that means in this context.

Rev. I certainly agree that diversity is the key to survival but I'm not sure what you mean by "progress".