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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