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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
by 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 agoWhy 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 agoI 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.