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The claim that T. rex had primate-level intelligence does not survive the simplest check: its brain is a fraction of a chimpanzee's and it weighed seven tons.

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  1. Dave Hone

    Palaeontologist and reader in zoology at Queen Mary University of London

    But I'm being obviously overly facetious, but if ultimately part of your scaling is how big is the animal versus how big is its brain, that's most of a T-Rex brain. It's a fraction of the size of a chimp brain, and chimps don't weigh seven tons.

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    ↗Dave Hone: T-Rex, Dinosaurs, Extinction, Evolution, and Jurassic Park | Lex Fridman Podcast #480youtube.com

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