[Jason Abbadon]

Intelligence sems to be a use it or lose it thing- science has recently been revising how it views such things- my favorite example is the New Caledonia Crow- little bastards are smarter at problem solving than chimps or human two year olds.

Check out an amazing Nature doumentary at pbs.org on crows- they have facial recognition for not just other crows, but animals and humans- and they teach their children what to look out for....meanwhile we cant tell one crow from another, and often cant recall people we've met and interacted with.

By contrast, chimps and other primates seem to have hit a plateau for intel- they dont need more for their niche, so they never developed it...but now us humans are wiping them out and they cant possibly adapt to all we're throwing at them.

Humans are a giant asteroid hitting the world....