Progovac's study challenges two dominant narratives in human evolution: "survival of the fittest" (physical strength) and "survival of the friendliest" (prosociality). While both played a role, ...

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In A Nutshell A linguist argues that wit, humor, and wordplay helped drive human language evolution through sexual selection, ...

A massive new analysis of over 1,700 languages shows that some long-debated “universal” grammar rules are actually real. By ...

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Is wit a sign of evolutionary fitness? A new study explores how "quick-wittedness" and ancient verb-noun compounds shaped the evolution of human grammar through sexual selection. Learn how "killjoys" ...

Is wittiness a kind of fitness? Ljiljana Progovac explores the idea that quick-wittedness—using and combining words in a ...