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Unread 04/13/2007, 11:34 PM   #9
Bubbashrimp
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Perhaps I should explain myself, have you ever seen nature shows that discuss an animals intellegence. The dolphin and the chimpanzee seem to be the closest to humans. Is this even a fair comparison? Lets say humans had the eyes of a mantis shrimp and therefore we would not need our occipital lope. Lets say that this put our brain size just below that of dolphins for arguments sake. Would that mean that dolphins are more intellegent than humans? I would not think so, we just would have better adapted eyes,right(if mantis eyes = an occipital lobe)?

I believe the mantis shrimp is intellegent, would it not have to be because of all the posturing it does to avoid fighting.

biologists, I do not believe are as careless as nature show directors to even make this comparison. If they do compare brain sizes would they not need to account for discrepencies due to the overcompensation of some senses.


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