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search Honda's ASIMO is an example of a humanoid robot.   In
theoretical convergent evolution[edit]  Though no humanoid
species has been discovered, the theory of convergent evolution
speculates different species may evolve similar traits, and in
the case of a humanoid these traits may include intelligence and
bipedalism and other humanoid skeletal changes, as a result of
similar evolutionary pressures. American psychologist Harry
Jerison suggested the possibility of sapient dinosaurs. In 1978,
he gave a presentation titled "Smart dinosaurs and comparative
psychology", at a meeting of the American Psychological
Association. According to his speech, dromiceiomimus supposedly
could have evolved into a highly intelligent species like human
beings.[2] Simon Conway Morris counters this argument, arguing
that convergence is a dominant force in evolution and that since
the same environmental and physical constraints act on all life,
there is an "optimum" bod