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Science Digest magazine, September 1983, had a short note about one type of dinosaur: If dinosaurs were not extinct, reptilian humanoids might have replaced us.

Science Digest magazine, September 1983, had a short note about one type of dinosaur: If dinosaurs were not extinct, reptilian humanoids might have replaced us. Stenonychosaurus inequalus, a 10ft dinosaur, had a brain-body ratio nearly that of primitive mammals. It is a likely choice.

toohotatopic 6y ago
Like cpu and programs, the mind is one thing, culture the other. Would it be possible for dinosaurs to have something like human culture? Children are attached to their parents for years to learn culture. A bondage that to some extend is formed in the womb. How would dinosaurs have a 'natural' way for education when they hedge from eggs and are left to themselves? All their culture has to be encoded in DNA which most likely takes up more brain tissue and much more time to evolve. There are breeding birds, so some form of attachment is possible. But that needs another limit. Birds need feathers before they can live on their own. Which limit could exist for dinosaurs? Crocodiles and turtles have kept on non-evolving for quite some time. (And there is no place for sapiened birds because the head is too heavy.)
- dTal 6y ago
  Why do you assume that being hatched from eggs means they have to fend for themselves? Birds are usually brought up by their parents.
  - toohotatopic 6y ago
    I have edited my comment shortly after posting and added a paragraph. In short: Birds need to develop feathers. How would a dinosaur be bound to its parents? It's the other way round: hatching from eggs means being able to fend for oneself which means that they don't learn that they have to stick around.
j9461701 6y ago
There is a Star Trek voyager episode based on this premise. "Distant Origin", in which an intelligent race of hardrosaurs survived the asteroid impact and eventually evolved into a space faring civilization.

toohotatopic 6y ago

Like cpu and programs, the mind is one thing, culture the other. Would it be possible for dinosaurs to have something like human culture? Children are attached to their parents for years to learn culture. A bondage that to some extend is formed in the womb. How would dinosaurs have a 'natural' way for education when they hedge from eggs and are left to themselves? All their culture has to be encoded in DNA which most likely takes up more brain tissue and much more time to evolve. There are breeding birds, so some form of attachment is possible. But that needs another limit. Birds need feathers before they can live on their own. Which limit could exist for dinosaurs? Crocodiles and turtles have kept on non-evolving for quite some time. (And there is no place for sapiened birds because the head is too heavy.)

dTal 6y ago
Why do you assume that being hatched from eggs means they have to fend for themselves? Birds are usually brought up by their parents.
- toohotatopic 6y ago
  I have edited my comment shortly after posting and added a paragraph. In short: Birds need to develop feathers. How would a dinosaur be bound to its parents? It's the other way round: hatching from eggs means being able to fend for oneself which means that they don't learn that they have to stick around.

j9461701 6y ago

There is a Star Trek voyager episode based on this premise. "Distant Origin", in which an intelligent race of hardrosaurs survived the asteroid impact and eventually evolved into a space faring civilization.