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

[Graydon <oak@uniserve.com>]

On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 08:21:38AM -0500, Dora Smith scripsit:
> Humans are teh only species that have ever become highly evolved and 
> avoided over-specialization,

Humans are extremely specialized to co-operate in groups.

There's generally a "fish, water" problem about this, but consider what
else lives in colonies of a million or more year round, or trades.

One of the most frustrating things about dinosaurs, at least from my
point of view, is that there are a whole huge range of behavioural
specializations that we're not ever going to see.  (Consider how you'd
tell, from the skeleton, that a black bear isn't social and that a wolf
is.)

-- Graydon