>>12080666Dinosaurs eventually evolved into something with the same reasoning skills as a toddler, but got stopped from progressing further by their small size and lack of hands. Beak and claw will get you far, but hands they do not make. Their brains are even better packed than ours are, but our brain weight is more than what their whole body weighs so we mog them anyway.
Given a thousand years of traditional selective breeding, I bet we could make giant parrots and corvids with borderline human intelligence.