maybe? but in my non-expert opinion, probably not. intelligence doesn't seem to be correlated with the age of the species or recent lineage from what i underst

maybe? but in my non-expert opinion, probably not. intelligence doesn't seem to be correlated with the age of the species or recent lineage from what i understand. in the water, sharks are extremely old, almost reaching back to the dinosaur ages, but they are wrecked in intelligence by orcas, who came much later. plus, intelligence, or at least the further development of society and technology is solely due to the ability to manipulate objects. for example, i strongly believe that if you took an orca brain and gave it human-like manipulation tools and moved it to land that you would have a homosapiens competitor.