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What Fueled Large Brain Growth In Evolution?

Jayhawker Soule

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Premium Member
Maybe individuals species do, but crocodiles as a group, for example, have been around for hundreds of millions of years in more or less the same basic form, because it is a very successful survival strategy ...
No; as with evolution, statis is not a survival strategy.
 

painted wolf

Grey Muzzle
Crocodilians have undergone quite a lot of change over their millions of years.
From fast running land lovers, to herbivores to totally marine creatures to bipedal runners, more terrestrial hunters.

Don't let the classic idea about Croc's fool you... they have changed quite a lot.
Rodent like Mammals date from the same time as the classic croc.

We are in a poor place to establish a group... as the single surviving member of a once much wider lineage we are, sad to say, in a bad place evolutionarily speaking.

wa:do
 

yportne

New Member
Intelligence might not be a good long term survival strategy. I base this on the fact that we have not been visited by aliens from neighboring solar systems in our galaxy. Vertabrates in general are not nearly as successfull as our invertebrate relatives.Bacteria are on the highly succesfull end .
 

Random

Well-Known Member
Intelligence might not be a good long term survival strategy.

Certainly not in some people's case, that's true...:rolleyes:

I base this on the fact that we have not been visited by aliens from neighboring solar systems in our galaxy.

You don't know that for sure. ;)

Vertabrates in general are not nearly as successfull as our invertebrate relatives.Bacteria are on the highly succesfull end.

This worldview is intellectually redundant. You can sip @ the trough of Darwinism all you like, but as soon as something more appealing comes along, there'll be little support for the accreditation of bacteria. That's coming soon...
 
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