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Originally Posted by apostate87  is it really brain size / body mass? wouldn't that make fat people dumber?... i'm not sure i'm with you on that. |
We're talking about species averages here, not individuals. In general, human beings have relatively small body size in comparison to brain size.
Then again, you might have just foreseen an unexpected evolutionary change, who knows?
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but i do think that intelligence is being overplayed here. i mean, lions have lots of strength, cheetahs are fast as hell, elephants are huge and us? we're smart. our advantage was the one that beat the others, but it doesn't make it some magical sort of 6th sense. i mean, every animal does it, we just do it better. chance.
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Evolution definitely has a lot to do with chance, yes...I mean, it's not like animals exactly choose to evolve.