On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Scott W. Diller <ford_p42_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
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> I have a theory that you take a smart species and feed them fish and other brain healthy foods and attempt to teach them to communicate and
> after a few generations of this you could get an intelligent and communicative animal. I'm talking more than the ape that did sign language.
No. You have to breed the smarter ones to each other, not just feed
them booster foods. There is only so much information that a given
size brain can process, no matter how efficiently it's working, due to
the natural inefficiencies of using protein as your medium.
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Received on Thu Apr 28 2011 - 13:56:40 CDT