Re: Hands and brains

[T.L.G.vanderLinden@student.utwente.nl (Timothy van der Linden)]

To David:

>But what about dinosaurs, small-brained creatures,
>many of whom had bodies much larger than elephants?
>I think I've read somewhere that a large portion
>of their nervous system was distributed... i.e.,
>their spinal cord handled more functions than ours
>does.  So why do elephants have a large brain
>instead of a distributed nervous system, more
>like a dinosaurs?

Maybe they had a smaller brain because they were (coldblooded?) reptiles
instead of warmblooded mammals.

Timothy