Items related to Beautiful Minds: The Parallel Lives of Great Apes and...

Beautiful Minds: The Parallel Lives of Great Apes and Dolphins - Softcover

 
9780674046276: Beautiful Minds: The Parallel Lives of Great Apes and Dolphins
View all copies of this ISBN edition:
 
 

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.”

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author:

Maddalena Bearzi is President and co-founder of the Ocean Conservation Society and 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 Stanford is Professor of Biological Sciences and Anthropology at the University of Southern California.

Review:
“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

“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

“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

“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

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Other Popular Editions of the Same Title

9780674027817: Beautiful Minds: The Parallel Lives of Great Apes and Dolphins

Featured Edition

ISBN 10:  ISBN 13:  9780674027817
Publisher: Harvard University Press, 2008
Hardcover

Top Search Results from the AbeBooks Marketplace

Stock Image

Bearzi, Maddalena
Published by Harvard University Press (2008)
ISBN 10: 0674046277 ISBN 13: 9780674046276
New Paperback Quantity: 1
Seller:
GoldenWavesOfBooks
(Fayetteville, TX, U.S.A.)

Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. New. Fast Shipping and good customer service. Seller Inventory # Holz_New_0674046277

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 26.50
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: US$ 4.00
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Bearzi, Maddalena
Published by Harvard University Press (2008)
ISBN 10: 0674046277 ISBN 13: 9780674046276
New Paperback Quantity: 1
Seller:
GoldBooks
(Austin, TX, U.S.A.)

Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed. Seller Inventory # think0674046277

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 29.06
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: US$ 4.25
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Bearzi, Maddalena
Published by Harvard University Press (2008)
ISBN 10: 0674046277 ISBN 13: 9780674046276
New Softcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
GF Books, Inc.
(Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.)

Book Description Condition: New. Book is in NEW condition. Seller Inventory # 0674046277-2-1

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 40.20
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: FREE
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Bearzi, Maddalena
Published by Harvard University Press (2008)
ISBN 10: 0674046277 ISBN 13: 9780674046276
New Softcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
Book Deals
(Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.)

Book Description Condition: New. New! This book is in the same immaculate condition as when it was published. Seller Inventory # 353-0674046277-new

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 40.21
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: FREE
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Maddalena Bearzi, Craig B. Stanford
Published by Harvard University Press (2010)
ISBN 10: 0674046277 ISBN 13: 9780674046276
New Paperback Quantity: 1
Seller:
Ergodebooks
(Houston, TX, U.S.A.)

Book Description Paperback. Condition: New. Seller Inventory # DADAX0674046277

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 40.22
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: FREE
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Seller Image

Bearzi, Maddalena; Stanford, Craig B.
Published by Harvard University Press (2008)
ISBN 10: 0674046277 ISBN 13: 9780674046276
New Softcover Quantity: 5
Seller:
GreatBookPrices
(Columbia, MD, U.S.A.)

Book Description Condition: New. Seller Inventory # 7597404-n

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 39.08
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: US$ 2.64
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Maddalena Bearzi Craig B. Stanford
Published by Harvard University Press (2008)
ISBN 10: 0674046277 ISBN 13: 9780674046276
New Softcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
Books Puddle
(New York, NY, U.S.A.)

Book Description Condition: New. pp. 368. Seller Inventory # 26825325

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 37.74
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: US$ 3.99
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Bearzi, Maddalena
Published by Harvard University Press (2008)
ISBN 10: 0674046277 ISBN 13: 9780674046276
New Softcover Quantity: > 20
Seller:
Lucky's Textbooks
(Dallas, TX, U.S.A.)

Book Description Condition: New. Seller Inventory # ABLING22Oct2018170021725

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 38.80
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: US$ 3.99
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Seller Image

Bearzi, Maddalena", "Stanford, Craig B."
Published by Harvard University Press (2008)
ISBN 10: 0674046277 ISBN 13: 9780674046276
New Soft Cover Quantity: 5
Print on Demand
Seller:
booksXpress
(Bayonne, NJ, U.S.A.)

Book Description Soft Cover. Condition: new. This item is printed on demand. Seller Inventory # 9780674046276

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 45.71
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: FREE
Within U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds
Stock Image

Bearzi Maddalena Stanford Craig B.
Published by Harvard University Press (2008)
ISBN 10: 0674046277 ISBN 13: 9780674046276
New Softcover Quantity: 1
Seller:
Majestic Books
(Hounslow, United Kingdom)

Book Description Condition: New. pp. 368. Seller Inventory # 8071218

More information about this seller | Contact seller

Buy New
US$ 38.44
Convert currency

Add to Basket

Shipping: US$ 8.20
From United Kingdom to U.S.A.
Destination, rates & speeds

There are more copies of this book

View all search results for this book