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Review: Beautiful Minds by Maddalena Bearzi and Craig Stanford

The first book to investigate the lives of apes and dolphins in parallel explains why both have big brains and what it must be like to be them

TO SEE the world from someone else鈥檚 point of view is hard enough, but how much harder when the viewpoint is that of a marine dweller with flippers or an ape whose cognition is based on leaf-centred 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 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.

Beautiful Minds

Maddalena Bearzi and Craig Stanford

Harvard University Press

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