To: blam
“Brain size correlates to IQ. Neanderthals had bigger brains the we do.”
If that were true, whales would be the most intelligent creatures on earth.
3 posted on
06/14/2007 5:58:52 PM PDT by
Blood of Tyrants
(G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
To: Blood of Tyrants
"If that were true, whales would be the most intelligent creatures on earth." Maybe you're not smart enough to recognize that they are?
5 posted on
06/14/2007 6:04:14 PM PDT by
blam
To: Blood of Tyrants
Necessary to adjust that to apply only to primate brains. Whales are pretty stupid when you get right down to it and their brains are constructed differently.
7 posted on
06/14/2007 6:06:05 PM PDT by
muawiyah
To: Blood of Tyrants
If that were true, whales would be the most intelligent creatures on earth. The things we could learn if we were only smart enough to understand them....
29 posted on
06/14/2007 6:48:54 PM PDT by
Hacksaw
(Appalachian by the grace of God! Montani Semper Liberi)
To: Blood of Tyrants
If that were true, whales would be the most intelligent creatures on earth.perhaps they are...
49 posted on
06/14/2007 8:23:25 PM PDT by
chilepepper
(The map is not the territory -- Alfred Korzybski)
To: Blood of Tyrants; shibumi
“Dumb” animals can learn *our* language well enough to associate a specific action/object/command/concept with them, yet we have not a single clue what *they* are saying.
[cue Twilight Zone music]....;]
58 posted on
06/14/2007 11:45:15 PM PDT by
Salamander
(And don't forget my Dog; fixed and consequent.......)
To: Blood of Tyrants
If that were true, whales would be the most intelligent creatures on earth. Whales brains have a very large task-specific portion of their brain, which appears devoted to sonar and associated spatial navigation. As I recall, Neanderthal's brain is enlarged most prominently in the areas associated with the visual cortex and navigation.
63 posted on
06/15/2007 5:37:59 AM PDT by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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