What would other animal skulls look like if they grew huge brains?
>>4465855Like ours basically. The ape face shape was moulded by the brain pushing stuff around and altering the position of jaw muscles. Smaller brained ancestors looked something like a cross between a cat and a squirrel. Microcephalic children have protruding upper jaws. If we ever give dogs human intelligence we need to do so by introducing avian genes for neuron density and efficiency
>>4465855Like this. They don't have a huge brain but they do have an enlarged skull volume due to hydrocephalus. Basically their brains got inflated like a balloon and the skull had to grow with it.
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What about animals like birds and whales, whose bodies need to be aero/hydrodynamic?
>>4466022Whales have big heads already. Birds are unlikely to evolve big heads, but if they do, they'd just look like birds with big heads
>>4466022birds are just dinosaurs with much bigger brains
>>4466022>whales, whose bodies need to be aero/hydrodynamic?
>>4466045AKCHUALLY birds reorganized and shrunk their neurons to they could achieve greater cognition without increasing weight and energy requirements.
>>4466071have you ever seen dinosaur brains?bird brains are like 100 times bigger by body mass or skull size.
>>4465855the fuck is happening between 4 and 5?
>>4466747Highly evolved neanderthal versus primitive sapien, I assume.
>>4466747>>4466833>Highly evolved neanderthal versus primitive sapien, I assume.yes, also invention of agriculture shrunk human brain size.
>>4466762Wyald?
>>4466841mansoor
>>4465855This image sucks as it implies our brains are at their peak currently. Neanderthals and Early Modern Humans like Cro-Magnon had bigger brains than us. Also, a sign of high intelligence is a high cranial vault. Some birds developed this convergently.
>>4466762miura was a hack
>>4466022>>4466041>>4466045>>4466071>>4466186>In fishes no distinct cranial vault as such exists. Instead, the skull is composed of loosely jointed bones. The cranial vault as a distinct unit arose with the fusion of the skull roof and the endocranium on the early Labyrinthodonts.[2] In amphibians and reptiles the vault is rather small and inconspicuous, only forming proper vaults in mammals and birds.Birds are reptiles with enlarged brains and they attained this convergently. A high vault and bigger brain is hyper-correlated with intelligence.
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>>4468840>>4468841this is antisemitic
>>4468889not true, the romans kept the mockery of jews to a tasteful minimum
>>4468898>the romans
>>4465861You're an idiot
>>4468822>A high vault and bigger brain is hyper-correlated with intelligenceCortex neuron count is the closer correlation to intelligence than brain size.
>>4465975Damn. How smart are they?
>>4468889how do you know they're jewish?
>>4471217birds are attracted to shiny things
