From: Robin Hanson (hanson@hss.caltech.edu)
Date: Wed Jan 08 1997 - 15:58:41 MST
CurtAdams@aol.com writes:
>I'm not sure about there being no "complexification drive". Brain sizes have
>increased markedly over time, and land animals with the intelligence of most
>dinosaurs probably wouldn't be viable today. Certainly there aren't any.
Maximum brain size has been increasing, just as maximum body size has
been increasing. But I don't think there is any more evidence for a
local tendency in brains than there is in bodies.
Robin D. Hanson hanson@hss.caltech.edu http://hss.caltech.edu/~hanson/
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