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Re:Therapod dinosaurs had primate-like numbers of neurons by checkyoursudo on Friday January 13, 2023 @06:34AM (#34366448)
If they had so many neurons, then why did they all go extinct? Can't have been that smart.

But seriously, measuring volume to extrapolate density of neurons after a couple hundred million years of intervening evolution seems a bit tenuous, doesn't it? Also, this method wouldn't tell us what brain regions (neuroanatomy) nor their cognitive functions. So how smart they would have been relative to modern therapods seems still quite a large guess.

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Re:Therapod dinosaurs had primate-like numbers of neurons by fancybouncy on Friday January 13, 2023 @06:48AM (#34366547)
you seem to assume that we won't go extinct...
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Re:Therapod dinosaurs had primate-like numbers of neurons by usui on Friday January 13, 2023 @07:43AM (#34366937)
Or that was a facetious joke...
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Re:Therapod dinosaurs had primate-like numbers of neurons by aruggirello on Friday January 13, 2023 @07:51AM (#34367018)
Therapods didn't all go extinct in fact. Survivors are called birds.
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