Re: Are birds really smarter than non-avian dinosaurs?

[don ohmes <d_ohmes@yahoo.com>]

--- On Mon, 5/26/08, David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at> wrote:

> Whether they were a separate species depends on the species
> concept, but the 
> reason they died out seems to have been the Last Glacial
> Maximum, which 
> _also_ wiped out the *H. sapiens sapiens* population of
> Europe. 

This is news to me! Could I get a reference on this? 

> We are the 
> descendants of later immigrants from the Middle East.

Er, who is "we"?
 
> Gray parrots (brain size: shelled walnut) are at
> least as smart as 
> sperm whales (largest brains ever).

Walnuts will never taste the same...

Don