Abstract:This commentary discusses the main points made in Reiner's article on the prospect that some theropod dinosaurs could have given rise to a lineage that achieved a human level of intelligence, and those made in Herculano-Houzel's article on the potentially monkey-like numbers of neurons in the pallium of large theropods, and the implications of this for their intelligence.
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