In talk.origins Tim Tyler <seemysig@googlemail.com> wrote:

Paul J Gans wrote:

The definition of evolutionary success is reproduction.  Using
that paradigm I conclude that intelligence, however defined,
is totally useless for evolutionary success.

That's not logical.  The same argument "proves" that sex,
multicellularity, DNA, lipid membranes and mitochondria
are "totally useless for evolutionary success".

Not really.  My point was made too obscurely.  Lots of
"unintelligent" things reproduce.  Clearly intelligence 
is not *required*.

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   --- Paul J. Gans