Winner of the William James Book AwardWinner 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

Arka Kapak Yazısı (Tanıtım Bülteninden)İnsan ahlakının evrimi iki adımda gerçekleşti. Başlangıçta doğa koşulları nedeniyle, ilk insanlar işbirliğine gitmezlerse yok olacaklarını gördü ve bu işbirliğini düzenli hale getirmek için yeni bilişsel yetenekler geliştirdiler. Riskleri en aza indirmek için her koşulda birlikte hareket edip, güven, saygı ve sorumluluk üzerine kurulu ikili ortaklıklar yarattılar.İnsan grupları kalabalıklaşıp işbölümü daha karmaşık bir hal aldığında ik...

"Haciendo una revisión de su trabajo anterior, Tomasello argumenta que los simios están cognitivamente mucho más cerca de los humanos de lo que se creía hace solo una década. La gran virtud de Una historia natural del pensamiento humano es su análisis conceptual de los pasos acumulativos que se requirieron en términos de cognición para transformarnos de simios en humanos." —Stephen Levinson, Science. En Una historia natural del pensamiento humano Michael Tomasello argumenta que la interacc...

A Wall Street Journal Favorite Read of the YearA Guardian Top Science Book of the YearTool-making or culture, language or religious belief: ever since Darwin, thinkers have struggled to identify what fundamentally differentiates human beings from other animals. In this much-anticipated book, Michael Tomasello weaves his twenty years of comparative studies of humans and great apes into a compelling argument that cooperative social interaction is the key to o...

"Si lo que se busca es una guía definitiva que explique cómo los humanos se convirtieron en una especie ultracooperativa y, eventualmente, moral, Una historia natural de la moralidad humana es el libro indicado. Después de Una historia natural del pensamiento humano, el antropólogo evolutivo Michael Tomasello nos brinda otra contribución seminal." —New Scientist. Una historia natural de la moralidad humana ofrece la explicación más detallada de la evolución de la psicología moral humana. S...

In this groundbreaking book, Michael Tomasello presents a comprehensive usage-based theory of language acquisition. Drawing together a vast body of empirical research in cognitive science, linguistics, and developmental psychology, Tomasello demonstrates that we don’t need a self-contained “language instinct” to explain how children learn language. Their linguistic ability is interwoven with other cognitive abilities.Tomasello argues that the essence of language is its symbolic dim...

Ambitious and elegant, this book builds a bridge between evolutionary theory and cultural psychology. Michael Tomasello is one of the very few people to have done systematic research on the cognitive capacities of both nonhuman primates and human children. The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition identifies what the differences are, and suggests where they might have come from.Tomasello argues that the roots of the human capacity for symbol-based culture, and the kind of ps...

Tool-making or culture, language or religious belief: ever since Darwin, thinkers have struggled to identify what fundamentally differentiates human beings from other animals. Michael Tomasello weaves his twenty years of comparative studies of humans and great apes into a compelling argument that cooperative social interaction is the key to our cognitive uniqueness. Tomasello maintains that our prehuman ancestors, like today's great apes, were social beings who could solve problems by thin...

Children of different ages live in different worlds. This is partly due to learning: as children learn more and more about the world they experience it in different ways. But learning cannot be the whole story or else children could learn anything at any age - which they cannot. In a startlingly original proposal, Michael Tomasello argues that children of different ages live and learn in different worlds because their capacities to cognitively represent and operate on their experience chan...

From 1999 to 2019, Dr. Michael Tomasello, then Co-Director of the Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology, publishes five books on human evolution: (A) The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition (1999), (B) Origins of Human Communication (2008), (C) A Natural History of Human Thinking (2014), (D) A Natural History of Human Morality (2016) and (E) Becoming Human: A Theory of Ontogeny (2019). In doing so, Tomasello's defines an arc of inquiry offers hypotheses on human evolution. Thes...

First published in 1997, Primate Cognition was a groundbreaking and highly successful book that set the agenda for a new field of study. Borrowing theoretical constructs and paradigms from human cognitive science and developmental psychology, the book reviewed all of the empirical research existing at that time concerning both physical cognition (space and objects, tools and causality, features and categories, and quantities) as well as social cognition (social knowledge and inter...

Through experiments with kids and chimpanzees, this cutting-edge theory in developmental psychology reveals how cooperation is a distinctly human combination of innate and learned behavior.“[A] fascinating approach to the question of what makes us human.” —Publishers WeeklyDrop something in front of a 2-year-old, and she’s likely to pick it up for you. This is not a learned behavior, psychologist Michael Tomasello argues. Through o...