Timeline for How could a sapient species lose its intelligence?
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| Aug 4, 2023 at 0:10 | comment | added | John | Sure but not for the reason you give, more intelligent does not equal better at getting food, but human level intelligence does, humans are way better at finding food than other primates, its hard to beat the beneficial effects of cooking and tools. cooking alone doubles your calorie intake. | |
| Aug 4, 2023 at 0:02 | comment | added | Mary | @John Some species increase brain power, some species decrease it. Clearly evolution can go both ways. | |
| Aug 3, 2023 at 23:52 | comment | added | John | brains are expensive but they vastly improve your ability to find calories, from fish weirs, to cooking roots, to building snares. | |
| Aug 2, 2023 at 16:02 | comment | added | user458 | @DKNguyen I had heard a similar story of "ancient wisdom". A native tribe knew it as a warning signal, and so moved inland. So, intelligence for the win, since the dummies drowned. | |
| Jun 9, 2023 at 2:25 | comment | added | DKNguyen | There was an example of the tides going out in...Sri Lanka I think? I forget where but elephants lived there. When the tides went out people headed to the beach out of curiosity but animals like elephants moved away. The tsunami ended up killing many more people than animals like elephants as a result. It wasn't known why the elephants moved away but it was theorized they were simply moving away from the source of infrasound. However other animals also moved away from the incoming tsunami. Just people did not because they were curious about an unusual event. | |
| Jun 8, 2023 at 23:33 | history | answered | Mary | CC BY-SA 4.0 |