Beautiful Minds

The Parallel Lives of Great Apes and Dolphins

Maddalena Bearzi

Craig B. Stanford

    • Introduction: Beautiful Minds
    1. An Eternal Fascination
    2. Two Histories Afield
    3. Swimming with Dolphins, Swinging with Apes
    4. Dolphin and Ape Societies—Whys and Wherefores
    5. Cognition: Minds in the Sea and Forest
    6. Master Politicians
    7. Culture Vultures
    8. Toward the Roots of Human Intelligence
    • Conclusion: Beautiful Minds Are a Terrible Thing to Waste
    • Further Reading
    • Acknowledgments
    • Index
  • Cover: Beautiful Minds
  • A photo of the author

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