Jurassic Intelligence

[Michael Andrew Turton <turtom@rpi.edu>]

        Dinosaurs and humans both have cognitive adaptations specific
to given environments, times, social practices and so forth.  It is
pointless to speak of "intelligence" -- t'aint no such animal, in my
view.  All Diamond has proved is that the evolution of any particular
set of cognitive adaptations is highly improbable -- but we knew
that anyway.  To assume that cognitive adaptations and abilities can
be meaningfully compared across species, let alone across space, is
absurd.

Mike Turton
turtom@rpi.edu