Sep 28, 2026
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives…” — Charles Darwin (misattributed) | Quote Explained
The real story behind the most-shared sentence Charles Darwin never wrote: a 1963 paraphrase by a Louisiana State University management professor named Leon C. Megginson, the slow decades in which it hardened into a Darwin quotation, what natural selection actually says about adaptation, and why a line that is false as history still tells the truth about change.