"Dinos evolution." Topic

I know, it's fantasy, but what if the dinos have evolved in this way?
How many changes we, the humans can had?

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They would have had to evolve long after the extinctions that got the rest of the macrosaurians to have a chance of encountering anything recognizably proto-Human.

Or maybe the iridium layer put down 65 million years ago was the by-product of their FTL being turned on…

Who makes this mini?

Please stop assuming that evolution automatically leads to higher intelligence over time. In the whole history of life on the planet we had only one species that called itself "intelligent", the rest are mainly "duds"

A big brain uses a lot of calories, so unless conditions are "just right" natural selection won't bother with big brains because they are too costly, too much investment for low returns. Once you do crest that wave it does have serious advantages, but it's a very steep climb and the reason why no other species have come close to Homo Sapiens level (complex language, advanced tool use, large-scale adaptation of environment etc)

Dinosaur brains were small, but were prefectly capable of handling every daily task required of them (eat, poo, procreate, scratch when it itches, roar at the camera …) Even their direct descendants haven't done much better in recent times, among the smartest of the bunch are the Corvids (Crows, magpies etc) They necessarily didn't get much smarter, they got wings and went on a completely different evolutionary path.

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With respect, the mini shown just seems like a front-heavy dino-creature with oddly humanoid arms.

the rest are mainly "duds"

Even their direct descendants haven't done much better in recent times, among the smartest of the bunch are the Corvids (Crows, magpies etc) They necessarily didn't get much smarter

Ouch.

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I meant birds in general, Corvids are among the smartest of the bunch and are amazingly bright, but I'm still waiting for the first one to write the next MAC OS or translate Shakespeare into Sanskrit, even their intelligence has limits. The rest of the avian family are broadly speaking, mostly "bird brain".

Intelligence is always pretty relative anyway. We consider dogs to be pretty smart, but pigs can solve problems that dogs simply cannot understand. Birds lack the opposable thumb, they can manipulate objects with their beaks and feet, but actual toolmaking is another ball-game, so even if corvids can manipulate complex tools, they hit a brick wall when it comes to making them.

My parrot can sing Mozart arias – he is far from a dud.

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A number of Parrots are surprisingly intelligent. The African Grey tops most lists for bird brains amongst the Parrots, but the New Zealand Kea is also very intelligent, and a known cooperative problem solver.