Quote Originally Posted by Mr Mystery View Post
Well struck sir!

Plus, evolutionary speaking, there is little reason to doubt intelligent life wouldn't resemble us. Flawed as we are, we remain inexplicably successful!
But that's to do with our large heads / proportionatly larger brains and resulting slow gestation and development compared to other creatures. Things that grow quickly tend to have smaller brains. Exception being octopoeds which are frigging smart and if they lived longer than 18 months would probably TAKE OVER THE WORLD