“Dr. Lori Marino, What Do (Can) Humans Know about Whale and Dolphin Minds”

Lori Marino offered a live webinar as part of the American Cetacean Society San Diego Chapter’s Live Series. In her talk, Marino reviewed some of the current scientific knowledge about cetacean brains and cognition, and identified areas where humans are different from cetaceans and areas where they are very similar. She concluded that as a result of a shared deep evolutionary history as mammals and the shared neuroanatomy, cetaceans and humans are not entirely unfamiliar to each other.