Re: Jumping in
erespess@inil.com
Tue, 26 Oct 1999 22:57:37 -0400
>So greater intelligence brings about greater adaptability?
>Doubt it. The more I grow intellectually, and the more intelligent I become,
>the less adaptable I become. I fit in less and less the more I know...maybe
>it's just because I'm young.
>Who knows.
>-Lauren-
Anthropologically speaking, the more specialized an organism becomes, the
less adaptive it is. For example if you can only eat one special kind of
banana and all of the crops of that banana are destroyed, you starve. If
you can eat many different kinds of fruit, then you have lots to choose
from even if one kind becomes unavailable to you. Intelligence is only
adaptible if it enables you to develop skills (social, professional,
whatever) to be more generalized.
Elizabeth