A picture of its activity in the evolutionary scheme of struggle and survival is something like the following: meeting an enemy, the animal is put in danger.

This is because of its resistance to any arrest of the circulation and also because its survival is easily shown by its contractility.

Non-muscular organs may also survive a removal from the parent organism, but the proofs of their survival are more difficult to establish because of the absence of movements.

And the survival was all the stronger, because even in the late Republic the abundant supply of slaves enabled the man of capital still to dispense largely with the services of the tradesman and artisan.

I knew that when love lasted, the credit of the survival was due far more often to the woman than to the man.

And Goa is no more alien to such philosophies, which generally appear to have a genetic similarity with Bihar and the other cow-belt states, where the motto of survival is, Jiski lathi uski bhais (He who wields the stick, own the buffalo).

They do not know why they behave in such and such ways, but their ancestors behaved in those ways and survival is the guaranty that the behaviour was good.

Now, in human societies, and already among gregarious animals, one of the main conditions of survival was common sentiment and behaviour.

Evidently the other factors in species- survival are of such overwhelming importance that the coloration becomes negligible from this standpoint, whether it be concealing or revealing.

In a society of hypocrites, would the fittest for survival be the most skilful deceiver?

Survival is an outliving, or outlasting of something else.