You can see what he found on Garson’s Quote Investigator site (where he also links to an earlier Wikiquote article ). In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment. Garson O’Toole sent us the results of his investigation into the second ‘quote’: And an earlier, closer match may also still be out there. That part of the story remains to be told. What he said was that those who survive are the ones who most accurately perceive their environment and successfully adapt to it.’ Megginson had an interest in the theories of evolution through ‘mutual aid’ advocated by the Russian zoologist Karl Kessler, and his statements about Darwin clearly reflect that.Īt some stage Megginson’s paraphrase of Darwin, slightly recast, was presented as it it were an actual quotation from Origin. One of the most valuable things I heard him say went something like this: Charles Darwin didn’t say that only the strong survive. Nick points out that one of Megginson’s former students recalled that ‘I learned a lot of good things from Leon Megginson’s classes. Significantly, Megginson was a prolific author of textbooks and a prominent teacher in management studies, the field in which the bogus quotation remains most pervasive. (A similar version is in Megginson’s article ‘Key to Competition is Management’, Petroleum Management (1964) 36(1): 91-95.) Megginson, ‘Lessons from Europe for American Business’, Southwestern Social Science Quarterly (1963) 44(1): 3-13, at p. Megginson wrote in 1963:Īccording to Darwin’s Origin of Species, it is not the most intellectual of the species that survives it is not the strongest that survives but the species that survives is the one that is able best to adapt and adjust to the changing environment in which it finds itself. Megginson, Professor of Management and Marketing at Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge. As you can read on Nick’s blog, the source is the writings of Leon C.
Matzke, of the Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, worked out its history. It is all over the web, and is prominently placed in the stone floor of the headquarters of the California Academy of Sciences (though the original attribution to Darwin has since been removed). It is the one that is most adaptable to change. It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. None of the fake soundbites is more insidious than the first: We gave you six things Darwin never said (despite what you may read elsewhere).
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