| Description |
351 pages ; 19 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction. Beautiful Minds -- 1. An Eternal Fascination -- 2. Two Histories Afield -- 3. Swimming with Dolphins, Swinging with Apes -- 4. Dolphin and Ape Societies - Whys and Wherefores -- 5. Cognition: Minds in the Sea and Forest -- 6. Master Politicians -- 7. Culture Vultures -- 8. Toward the Roots of Human Intelligence -- Conclusion: Beautiful Minds Are a Terrible Thing to Waste |
| Summary |
"Apes and Dolphins: Primates and cetaceans. Could any creatures appear to be more different? Yet both are large-brained intelligent mammals with complex communication and social interaction. In the first book to study apes and dolphins side by side, Maddalena Bearzi and Craig B. Stanford, a dolphin biologist and a primatologist who have spent their careers studying these animals in the wild, combine their insights with compelling results. Beautiful Minds explains how and why apes and dolphins are so distantly related yet so cognitively alike and what this teaches us about another large-brained mammal: Homo sapiens."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-322) and index |
| Subject |
Apes -- Behavior.
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Dolphins -- Behavior.
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Animal societies.
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Psychology, Comparative.
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| Author |
Stanford, Craig B. (Craig Britton), 1956-
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| LC no. |
2007046199 |
| ISBN |
9780674027817 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0674027817 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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