(November 6, 2010 at 2:11 pm)Chuck Wrote: It seems hasty to jump to the conclusion that the brain the size of a beer nut is as capable and versatile as a brain the size of a beer mug. It seems more likely that the bird brain may have been hardwired to perform a few types of tasks that are normally taken to indicate intelligence, but lack the versatility and adaptability of a more generalized ape brain.Its way more complicated than that. Cortical Folding of the cerebral cortex is as just as essential for the brain to deal with cognitive tasking than simply going by Brain-to-body mass ratio estimates Chuck, otherwise Sperm whales, and not us, would be the most intelligent animals on planet Earth.
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