In a 1922 paper called "Natural Selection as a Physical Principle", Alfred Lotka rephrased "survival of the fittest" as simply "persistence of stable forms." Seems like way less loaded of a term. Stable forms persist in biology until they become unstable in a way that makes them unable to persist, then they change and continue as new forms.
10.1073/pnas.8.6.151
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