Although I suspect humans are the most intelligent, it's possible that is us creating a standard specifically for our skill set and other species outperform us by equally reasonable but different standards.
> After all, if there's nothing special about human intelligence, why are we the most dominant species on the planet?
Could be a lot of things. Sea life can't have fire, so no ceramics or refined metals.
We're unusually cooperative at multiple levels of abstraction; wolves have packs, ants have colonies, but we have global trade in information, energy, goods, and two nations of over 1.4 billion people each.
Opposable thumbs are really useful, relatively rare.
> After all, if there's nothing special about human intelligence, why are we the most dominant species on the planet?
Could be a lot of things. Sea life can't have fire, so no ceramics or refined metals.
We're unusually cooperative at multiple levels of abstraction; wolves have packs, ants have colonies, but we have global trade in information, energy, goods, and two nations of over 1.4 billion people each.
Opposable thumbs are really useful, relatively rare.