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BL
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783643
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b603656
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| Main Entry
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Maddalena Bearzi and Craig B. Stanford.
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Beautiful minds : : the parallel lives of great apes and dolphins\ Maddalena Bearzi and Craig B. Stanford.
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge, Mass. ; London: Harvard University Press, 2010
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pages
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| ISBN
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0674046277
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: 9780674046276
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| Notes
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Originally published: 2008.
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| Contents
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* Introduction: Beautiful Minds ; * 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 ; * Conclusion: Beautiful Minds Are a Terrible Thing to Waste ; * Further Reading ; * Acknowledgments ; * Index
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| Abstract
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The authors, a dolphin biologist and a primatologist, combine their expertise to explain how and why apes and dolphins are so distantly related yet so cognitively alike.
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Animal societies.
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Apes -- Behavior.
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Dolphins -- Behavior.
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| LC Classification
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QL737.P96M333 2010
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Craig B Stanford
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Maddalena Bearzi
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