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I sometimes wonder if crows would be able to build a civilization if they had human hands. They may be about as smart as australopithecus, so there could be an
by inglor_cz 2y ago
I sometimes wonder if crows would be able to build a civilization if they had human hands.
They may be about as smart as australopithecus, so there could be an evolutionary feedback loop: tools-brain-better tools-better brain.
But you can only do so much with a beak.
- hinkley 2y agoIn the Uplift books dolphins are given prosthetic arms. That’s already half future tech and you’d have to miniaturize them for crows. No way to control them yet, in either case.
- out_of_protocol 2y agoCrow's brains are very good at what they do because their version of human's neocortex is in the center of the brain. And this is the reason why crow's brains can't scale up, there no enough space to grow "thinking" part of brain