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@jurassiclove
" I've read that a dinosaur's brain is no bigger than a walnut " It's an absurdity, a nonsense. It was been told that about stegosaurs, but here, at last it is admitted we spoke about a predator enjoying very acuted senses, particularly smell and vision. Thus the olfactory lobes need to be developped. Then, once again, the idea of "neuronal density" explained by Suzana Herculano Houzel is a very attractive one. Clearly dinosaurs are not mammalien, so it's absurd to only consider the weight of the brain between two classes of animals having anything in common. Crows are the most performing actual birds in term of intelligence and among the most smartest animals which exist. Yet we can guess their brain doesn't exceed a fews grams. Same thing as concerns the octopus. Suzana Herculano Houzel's theory should be admitted till we find a counterexample. |
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