I seriously doubt it, honestly, since humans have anatomical limitations keeping their heads from getting bigger quickly. We have to be able to fit through the birth canal.
I seriously doubt it, honestly, since humans have anatomical limitations keeping their heads from getting bigger quickly. We have to be able to fit through the birth canal.
Perfectly ordinary terrestrial mammals like elephants have much, much larger skulls at birth than humans, so it’s clearly a matter of tradeoffs not an absolute limit.
Oh of course, but evolution has to work with what it’s got. Humans happened to fit a niche where they might benefit from more intelligence, elephants don’t seemingly fit such a niche.
> We have to be able to fit through the birth canal.
Or at least we used to, before the c-section was invented.
Indeed, but it hasn’t been around for long enough. We might evolve into birth by c-section, if we assume that humans won’t alter themselves dramatically by technological means over hundreds of thousands of years.