Why do bees die when they sting you?

Re:Why do bees die when they sting you? by RangerScience on Saturday January 18, 2025 @01:52PM (#42750447)

Survival of the fittest is the flawed quote, usually used by those with supremacist conceptual frameworks (that there can be an objective “better”, etc). This shows up a lot in fiction, where the quote is used as justification for cruelty, atrocities, and the like.

IMHO, the much better quote is:

> It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.

See https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/people/about-darwin/six-thin...

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Re:Why do bees die when they sting you? by HPsquared on Saturday January 18, 2025 @02:03PM (#42750546)

I'm very tickled by the lack of attention to detail here. The article does present that quote, yes, but it's preceded by the sentence:

"None of the fake soundbites is more insidious than the first:"

i.e. it's a fake quote

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Re:Why do bees die when they sting you? by ch4s3 on Saturday January 18, 2025 @02:09PM (#42750593)

> It is the one that is most adaptable to change

That is what fit means.

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Re:Why do bees die when they sting you? by mixmastamyk on Saturday January 18, 2025 @02:41PM (#42750822)

It is not only the best adapted class that survives, aka the "fittest." They only need to be good enough to survive and reproduce. In other words, the principle should be stated as "survival of the good enough." I know it doesn't roll off the tongue as well, but is more accurate.

Perhaps, survival of the fit. (period)

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