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2008

Format:	Book
Author:	Bearzi, Maddalena.
Title:	Beautiful minds : the parallel lives of great apes and dolphins / Maddalena Bearzi & Craig B. Stanford.
Publisher, Date:	Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.
Description:	351 pages ; 19 cm
Summary:	In this first book to study apes and dolphins side by side, 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.
Subjects:	Apes -- Behavior. Dolphins -- Behavior. Animal societies. Psychology, Comparative. Dolphins. Animal behavior.
Other Author:	Stanford, Craig B. (Craig Britton)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-322) and index.
Contents:	An eternal fascination -- Two histories afield -- Swimming with dolphins, swinging with apes -- Dolphin and ape societies-whys and wherefores -- Cognition: minds in the sea and forest -- Master politicians -- Culture vultures -- Toward the roots of human intelligence.
Web Site:	Table of contents
LCCN:	2007046199
ISBN:	9780674027817 0674027817 9780674046276 0674046277
Other Number:	179801020
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Control Number:	221431
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Call Number:	599.88 Bearzi

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