Reveals the shared ancestry behind our affinity with dolphins and our
shared destiny
- Explains how we are both descendants of the aquatic ape and still
share many physiological features with dolphins that set us apart from
other primates
- Explores dolphins' communication with other species and how dolphin
therapy has miraculous effects on people with autism, cancer, stroke,
and depression
- Explores the connections between dolphins and Atlantis and Lemuria
Wild animals avoid contact with humans, but wild dolphins seek us out to
play and socialize, even going so far as to voluntarily rescue people
from drowning. What explains this remarkable natural affinity?
Revealing the evolutionary basis for our special relationship with
dolphins, Frank Joseph explains how we are both descendants of the same
ancient branch of human-ity. Building upon the aquatic ape theory, he
details how we both began on land but devastating floods forced our
distant ancestors into the seas, where humanity developed many of the
traits that set us apart from other primates, such as our instinctive
diving reflex and our newborns' ability to swim. But while some of the
aquatic apes returned to land, later evolving into modern humans, some
remained in the cradle of Mother Ocean and became our dolphin cousins.
Integrating scientific research on dolphin intelligence, communication,
and physiology with enduring myths from some of the world's oldest
cultures, such as the Aborigines, Norse, Greeks, and Celts, the author
examines our physical commonalities with dolphins, including their
vestigial thumbs and legs, birth processes, and body temperature. He
explores dolphins' uncanny ability to diagnose disease such as cancer in
humans and how dolphin therapy has had miraculous effects on children
with autism, victims of stroke, and those suffering from depression. He
provides evidence for dolphins' different attitudes toward men, women,
and children, their natural affinity with cats and dogs, and their
telepathic communication with other species, including ours. He explores
dolphins' mysterious role in the birth of early civilization and their
connections with the Dog Star, Sirius, and Atlantis and Lemuria--a bond
still commemorated by annual gatherings of millions of dolphins.
As Frank Joseph shows, if we can learn to fully communicate with
dolphins, accessing their millennia-old oral tradition, we may learn the
truth about humanity's origins and our shared future, when humankind may
yet again quit the land for a final return to the sea.
