Re:Giraffes are as socially complex as elephants
by tshaddox on Thursday August 05, 2021 @02:29PM
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“Intelligence” isn’t synonymous with “evolutionary fitness.” There are plenty of reasons why the genes of a more intelligent species might have had less reproductive success than the genes of a less intelligent species.
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Re:Giraffes are as socially complex as elephants
by kdmoyers on Thursday August 05, 2021 @03:41PM
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Indeed, I think Steven Jay Gould said that the jury is still out on whether intelligence has proved a successful trait for humans, given that we have been around for barely eye blink on evolutionary time scales.