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Originally Posted by jimjamuser
I remember reading that humans use only a small % of their brains. So, maybe in the future, there will be opportunity to use more brain cells. There are stories or instances where a person has a stroke or gets hit by lightning and then suddenly, without prior training, can play a piano or a violin like a virtuoso.
i always wondered........dolphins and elephants have BIGGER sized brains than humans, so what has held them back? Humans have opposable thumbs and obviously, dolphins and elephants do NOT. I wonder how smart they could be if they had opposable thumbs. Also, it is a shame that elephants get hunted for ivory by poachers. For that matter, how smart would dog / wolves be with opposable thumbs. Or even raccoons? Perhaps these specie are also evolving? Just some food for thought.
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Evolution goes on. Changes, mostly imperceptible over short timescales. Some things seem to be unchanged over many millennia. Animal and plant life caught in amber and fossils from the earliest times sometimes turn up something that appear unchanged. Still, for most living things, evolution goes on.