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Beautiful Minds: The Parallel Lives of Great Apes and Dolphins

di Maddalena Bearzi

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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."… (altro)
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Adult nonfiction; biology/psychology/anthropology. I guess I was hoping that this one would have more of a narrative, but I found this one somewhat dry and barely readable, despite my genuine interest in both dolphins and apes. It was ok for a while but sort of dragged... and eventually I gave up on it (too many other excellent books I'd rather read). Perhaps I shouldn't have tried to read it at the end of the day when I am already tired out. ( )
  reader1009 | Jul 3, 2021 |
I was at my local Borders, glancing over the two shelves of horse books, whose spines I have all memorized by now, when I decided to take a step over to the "Miscellaneous Animals" shelf. I always have high hopes that a paperback edition (I simply abhor hardcovers) of "The Age of Empathy" will magically appear that shelf, a couple of months before it's official release. Of course, it wasn't there, but I found this small paperback in my search. I love dolphins. Almost as much as humans. Apes are always interesting as well. A book that combines the two? And talks about their behavior? I was sold. Not to mention the book itself was nice and compact--a size I almost wish all paperbacks came in (mass-market paperback editions? Yes please!).

Pretty good book. It included some incredible anecdotes about dolphin and ape behavior. I only wish the book contained more of those anecdotes. Instead a large part of it was rather dry and repetitive. The writing styles of the two writers also wasn't the most compatible. I however applaud them for pursuing such a unique topic. It's simple fascinating how two species of animals, so incredibly different from each other, have both evolved brains capable of language, culture, problem-solving, self-awareness, etc. Comparing the two species puts the focus on the book on the subject of evolution and intelligence, which gives me little right to criticize the lack of stories on interactive behavior. So for what it's worth, the authors did an excellent job in their task. Intelligence and evolution are however, at least in my opinion, rather dry topics. Funny I should say that considering I was briefly a Cognitive Science major in college. No wonder it didn't last...

I would also like to point out how this book had me laughing out loud when it reminded me of the scientist John Lilly and his quote "scientists should learn how to communicate with dolphins to prepare for communication with life in outer space." Oh the wonderful 60s.

To say the least, I learned a ton about dolphins and apes. There's an excellent "Further Reading" list in the back of this one, and I plan on adding most of these suggestions to my list. ( )
  jrapala | Sep 8, 2010 |
This book is a good read that asks us to take pause and look at what we are doing to the animals we share this planet with. ( )
  robrod1 | Sep 1, 2010 |
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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."

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