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Survival of the wittiest: Expert says linguistic cleverness aids human evolution
- March 31, 2026 at 2:10 PM
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Is wittiness a kind of fitness? Ljiljana Progovac explores the idea that quick-wittedness—using and combining words in a clever and funny way—has been actively selected for in humans from the dawn of language. The findings are published in the journal PNAS Nexus.
Originally published at Phys.org