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From: mcohen@charming.nrtc.northrop.com (Martin Cohen)
Subject: Re: Intelligence an advantage?
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In article <3uhtac$pq3@mars.hyperk.com> Kevin Coble <kxc@srv.net> writes:
................
>Other animals roamed the earth long before the monkeys moved up the
>evolutionary scale, and it is doubtful anything close to intelligence
>emerged in the millions of years of large scale lifeforms before. 
>Intelligence is perhaps the ultimate survival tool for evolution, but it
>is not inevitable, nor easy to come by!

From what I have read, it appears that if the dinosaurs had
not been snuffed 65 million years ago, we would not have
evolved. 

Could the dinosaurs have developed intelligence comparable
to our own? Would they have needed to?
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Marty Cohen (mcohen@nrtc.northrop.com) - Not the guy in Philly
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