where to start....
Ok, intellegence, and with that i am assuming you mean self consciousness and content. These are not the teleogical end of evoloution. And it is certainly not a guarenteed outcome, how are you basing that? Evoloution is a random set of mutations, nothing more. There is actually a very complex and as yet not understood path that took us to the intellegence and consciousness we have today. The fact that others of the great ape family are still around without our level of intellegence shows that intellegence itself is not a neccisary outcome. species survived in different ways, so there is no reason to assume that the way our species survived was anything special and definitely not neccisary.
I am aware of alex, and no he is not intellegent in the way you want the dinosaurs to be. He doesn't get close to the great apes i'm afraid.
errr i'm sure i have more but its starting to feel to much like my work, and i'm on holiday!
I think you'll find i said in my post that brain size didnt automatically equate to intelligence, but there are certain physical facts required for intellegence and the running of a body. Brain power is needed for both, so the more complex/larger your body is the harder it would be to achieve a greater intellegence.
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