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If “A bird with a 10-gram brain is doing pretty much the same as a chimp with a 400-gram brain,” as the article says, what does this say about dinosaurs, which
by ralphc 1y ago
If “A bird with a 10-gram brain is doing pretty much the same as a chimp with a 400-gram brain,” as the article says, what does this say about dinosaurs, which appear to be the ancestors of birds but are larger creatures? What was their intelligence like?
- lamename 1y agoOddly, what tends to matter for competence in X domain in relation to the brain isn't the absolute size of the brain (or brain region) but size relative to 1. The other structures in the brain 2. Total brain size relative to body size
- TMWNN 1y agoMy question is related to this. The article implies that the separate evolutionary track that resulted in birds is more advanced than the one that led to primates and us. Given that, would a bird with a 3lb brain be smarter than a human?