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Not by itself. I never said it was enough by itself. However, you consistently have failed to present evidence that evolutionary processes cannot be a source of human intelligence, so now I am demanding evidence that this is the case.
A natural process cannot choose what it does. Wind doesn't choose which way to blow. You are twisting my meaning on purpose, and it is getting on my nerves, you know exactly what I am intending to convey, yet you keep dodging it through this nonsense rather than address the actual points I have to make.
Partly because of the severe inbreeding our artificial selection inflicted upon them, and partly because they didn't acquire the mutations we did. Not that the mutations we have are the only way a species could become intelligent, but you are treating this as if being as intelligent as a human would somehow be beneficial to a dog, which lacks the digits to manipulate the world as we do. Bipedal movement and hands evolved long before our level of intelligence did.
Evolution never chooses anything, it's a process not a being.
An increase in intelligence has been evidenced by the increase in complexity of our relatives tool use and some other behavior like burial and art.
If you are going to make that claim, you're going to need some actual evidence. And evolution doesn't go backwards. Sometimes, small numbers of traits seen in previous ancestral species might reappear, but you'll never see a species gradually become the one that preceded it. That would disprove evolution.
I apologize, I meant to ask if you could see the contradiction in believing something to be true but not being able to present an explanation for why you believed that.
1. Intelligence carries an enormous cost in terms of energy demands by the brain. Thus far natural selection has declared that the price is generally to high to pay.
