<i>&gt; Certainly the human brain is the most optimized (so far!) for being a human and the elephant&#x27;s the most optimized for being an elephant.</i><p>But... if you put a human brain in an elephant, wouldn&#x27;t it be &quot;better&quot; at getting food, killing competing elephant bulls, and passing genes around?<p>I&#x27;m not sold on the self-evidence of elephant brains being the best elephants...