(May 9, 2019 at 8:23 pm)AFTT47 Wrote: It may be that intelligent life is very rare Our big brains have a lot going against them from an evolutionary standpoint. They use a great deal of energy, they make birthing difficult, they leave offspring vulnerable for a long time, etc. The conditions favoring big brain development might not happen often. The dinos dominated the planet for hundreds of millions of years without them.And by "dominated" you mean "they stodged along brainlessly." They had no more awareness than a cow.
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