Five-second guess: Human-level Machiavellian intelligence needs language facilities to co-evolve with, grunts and body language doesn’t allow nearly as convoluted schemes. Evolving some precursor form of human-style language is the improbable part that other species haven’t managed to pull off.
Five-second guess: Human-level Machiavellian intelligence needs language facilities to co-evolve with, grunts and body language doesn’t allow nearly as convoluted schemes. Evolving some precursor form of human-style language is the improbable part that other species haven’t managed to pull off.