Beautiful minds: the parallel lives of great apes and dolphins
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1. Verfasser: Bearzi, Maddalena (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press 2008
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-322) and index
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
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
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (351 p.)
ISBN:0674029909
0674033795
9780674029903
9780674033795

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