Survival of the fittest is a phrase that originated from Darwinian evolutionary theory as a way of describing the mechanism of natural selection.In On the Origin of Species, he introduced the phrase in the fifth edition published in 1869, intending it to mean "better designed for an immediate, local environment".
The biologist is the person who would be interested in determining the existence of any pattern or characteristics with in a species and relate it to the characteristics possessed earlier by the species.