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Becoming Human : A Theory of Ontogeny by Michael Tomasello (2021, Trade Paperback)
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He identifies eight pathways that differentiate humans from their primate relatives: social cognition, communication, cultural learning, cooperative thinking, collaboration, prosociality, social norms, and moral identity.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherHarvard University Press
ISBN-100674248287
ISBN-139780674248281
eBay Product ID (ePID)5038791667
Product Key Features
Number of Pages392 Pages
Publication NameBecoming Human : a Theory of Ontogeny
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2021
SubjectCognitive Science, General, Evolutionary Psychology, Developmental / General
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaScience, Psychology
AuthorMichael Tomasello
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight13 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsNo philosophical question is older than What are we, we humans? Michael Tomasello contributes a splendid, empirically based answer to this hoary debate in Becoming Human ., Theoretically daring, experimentally ingenious, and astonishingly generative, Becoming Human squarely tackles the abiding question of what makes us human.
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal155
SynopsisWinner of the William James Book Award Winner of the Eleanor Maccoby Book Award "A landmark in our understanding of human development." --Paul Harris, author of Trusting What You're Told "Magisterial...Makes an impressive argument that most distinctly human traits are established early in childhood and that the general chronology in which these traits appear can...be identified." -- Wall Street Journal Virtually all theories of how humans have become such a distinctive species focus on evolution. Becoming Human looks instead to development and reveals how those things that make us unique are constructed during the first seven years of a child's life. In this groundbreaking work, Michael Tomasello draws from three decades of experimental research with chimpanzees, bonobos, and children to propose a new framework for psychological growth between birth and seven years of age. He identifies eight pathways that differentiate humans from their primate relatives: social cognition, communication, cultural learning, cooperative thinking, collaboration, prosociality, social norms, and moral identity. In each of these, great apes possess rudimentary abilities, but the maturation of humans' evolved capacities for shared intentionality transform these abilities into uniquely human cognition and sociality. "How does human psychological growth run in the first seven years, in particular how does it instill 'culture' in us? ...Most of all, how does the capacity for shared intentionality and self-regulation evolve in people? This is a very thoughtful and also important book." --Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution "Theoretically daring and experimentally ingenious, Becoming Human squarely tackles the abiding question of what makes us human." --Susan Gelman "Destined to become a classic. Anyone who is interested in cognitive science, child development, human evolution, or comparative psychology should read this book." --Andrew Meltzoff
LC Classification NumberBF713.T655 2021
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