>>10992254Dude in your post seems like a fucking faggot, as to your question no other species had the combination of physical traits and genetic potential plus the very specific environmental pressures necessary to generate human-level intelligence combined with clever tool use and environment manipulation. Some other animals do have the brain potential, dolphins seem to have an equivalent level of social and emotional complexity but they can never rise to human level because their environment does not permit them to ever manipulate fire and thus they could never create complex tools. Corvids can use tools and seem to have human level understanding of cause and effect, to the point where they can solve complex puzzles to accomplish tasks but they're all very small and they probably lack the capacity to support the metabolic demands of a human-sized brain. They can already fly, an adaptation that gives them a different set of survival options that don't force them to get any smarter.
