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  Book Title: Beautiful
Minds: The Parallel Lives of Great Apes and Dolphins	 	
  Book Author: 
Maddalena Bearzi (Author), Craig B. Stanford (Author) 
   Hardcover: 368 pages
   Publisher:
Harvard University Press (April 30, 2008)
   Language: English
   ISBN-10: 0674027817
   ISBN-13:
978-0674027817
  
  Book Description
  Publication Date: April 30, 2008
  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.
  Noting that apes and
dolphins have had no common ancestor in nearly 100 million years, Bearzi and Stanford describe the parallel evolution
that gave rise to their intelligence. And they closely observe that intelligence in action, in the territorial grassland
and rainforest communities of chimpanzees and other apes, and in groups of dolphins moving freely through open coastal
waters. The authors detail their subjects’ ability to develop family bonds, form alliances, and care for their
young. They offer an understanding of their culture, politics, social structure, personality, and capacity for emotion.
The resulting dual portrait—with striking overlaps in behavior—is key to understanding the nature of
“beautiful minds.”
  
  Editorial
Review
  From Publishers Weekly
  Endowed through
evolution with large brains, the great apes (chimpanzees, bonobos gorillas and orangutans) and the cetaceans (dolphins
and whales) are second only to humans in intelligence. In this delightful and intriguing book, dolphin specialist Bearzi
and primatologist Stanford discuss the similarities between these groups. Both use tools, have sophisticated means of
communication and cooperation, solve problems innovatively, transmit cultural traditions to the next generation and are
able to imitate others. Like humans, apes and dolphins form complex social networks, and they are capable of deception
and manipulation. The authors cite many examples: dolphins hoard objects in order to get treats or wear sponges as
protective masks as they forage; apes use twigs to extract termites from termite mounds, chimpanzees cultivate alliances
with group mates to dominate their communities. In the final section, Bearzi and Stanford survey the factors making
dolphins and apes endangered species, and they make a plea for conserving the ecosystems in which they live, because the
beautiful minds of these creatures are a terrible thing to waste. (Apr.)
  
  Reviews
  Endowed through evolution with large brains, the great apes
(chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans) and the cetaceans (dolphins and whales) are second only to humans in
intelligence. In this delightful and intriguing book, dolphin specialist Bearzi and primatologist Stanford discuss the
similarities between these groups. Both use tools, have sophisticated means of communication and cooperation, solve
problems innovatively, transmit cultural traditions to the next generation and are able to imitate others. Like humans,
apes and dolphins form complex social networks, and they are capable of deception and manipulation. (Publishers Weekly 2008-01-28)
  
  To see the world from someone else's point
of view is hard enough but how much harder when that viewpoint is that of a marine dweller with flippers or an ape whose
cognition is based on leaf-centered survival in a rainforest? Hand-signed chimp communications and distinguishing
imitation from emulation are two of the topics covered here, the first book to investigate the lives of the dolphins and
apes in parallel. It explains why both have big brains and, as far as possible, what it must be like to be them.
Fascinating.--Adrian Barnett (New Scientist 2008-04-26)
  
 
Delightful...By the time I reached the final chapter of Beautiful Minds I was so charmed that I felt compelled to read
on. Bearzi and Stanford's book has the capacity to delight, entertain, educate, evoke compassion and, I hope, galvanize
people into action.--Debbie Custance (Times Higher Education Supplement
2008-05-22)
  
  Dolphin specialist Bearzi and primatologist Stanford team up in this discussion of
the qualities of two species of mammal endowed with remarkably large brains. Among explications of the cultures,
politics and emotion of the animals, the authors also make a resounding plea for conserving the ecosystems of these
complex creatures.--Elizabeth Abbott (Globe and Mail 2008-08-30)
  
 
About the Author
  Maddalena Bearzi is
the President and Co-founder of the Ocean Conservation Society and is a visiting scholar in the Departments of
Anthropology and Biological Sciences, at the University of California, Los Angeles. She has studied dolphins and whales
in California and different parts of the world.
  Craig B. Stanford is
Professor in the Departments of Biological Sciences and Anthropology at the University of Southern California. 						

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