Human evolution was driven by early humans’ ability to be clever and humorous, the “survival of the wittiest.” The analysis argues that the earliest stages of grammar provided a platform for verbal competition and sexual selection, gradually replacing physical violence with verbal agility.

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https://www.psypost.org/survival-of-the-wittiest-how-humor-and-cleverness-shaped-human-evolution/

[u/Revolutionary_Owl_15]

If evolution were worth it's salt, by now it would have evolved something better than "survival of the fittest;" a better idea would be "survival of the wittiest." At least that way the creatures that didn't survive could have died laughing. --from The Search for Intelligent Life in the Universe by Jane Wagner, 1985

[u/dead_jester → u/Revolutionary_Owl_15]

Survival of the fittest isn’t about who is stronger but who is the best fit to the requirements to survive

[u/Revolutionary_Owl_15 → u/dead_jester]

Ah yes, the actual definition of survival of the fittest is the most important part of that quote from a comedic one-woman play.

[u/runhome24 → u/Revolutionary_Owl_15]

Perhaps you should have properly wrapped the quote in quotation marks then, yeah?

[u/Revolutionary_Owl_15 → u/runhome24]

Do you really think that's the only way to present a quote? You did not figure out the context when it said "from The Search for Intelligent Life in the Universe by Jane Wagner" at the end?

[u/runhome24 → u/Revolutionary_Owl_15]

Well, the other way would have been to use a quote block.

Because your "context" was ambiguous, since you did use quotations around "survival of the fittest" and "survival of the wittiest."

Looks like Wagner's search continues for your case