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Understanding cooperation as a distinctly human combination of innate and learned behavior. Drop something in front of a two-year-old, and she's likel...
Michael Tomasello offers the most detailed account to date of the evolution of human moral psychology. Based on experimental data comparing great apes...
In this groundbreaking book, Tomasello presents a comprehensive usage-based theory of language acquisition. Drawing together a vast body of empirical ...
A Wall Street Journal Favorite Read of the Year A Guardian Top Science Book of the Year Tool-making or culture, language or religious belief: ever sin...
A Theory of Ontogeny
Winner of the William James Book Award Winner of the Eleanor Maccoby Book Award “A landmark in our understanding of human development.” —Paul Ha...
Ambitious and elegant, this book builds a bridge between evolutionary theory and cultural psychology. Michael Tomasello is one of the very few people ...
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 i...
A Case Study of Early Grammatical Development
During the second year of his daughter's life, Michael Tomasello kept a detailed diary of her language, creating a rich database. He made a careful st...
Previous experimental research has suggested that chimpanzees may understand some of the epitemological aspects of visual perception, such as how the ...
This book reviews all that is scientifically known about the cognitive skills of non-human primates and assesses the current state of our knowledge....
A Debate on Lexical Acquisition
Language acquisition is a contentious field of research occupied by cognitive and developmental psychologists, linguists, philosophers, and biologists...
Social Cognition
First published in 1997, Primate Cognition was a groundbreaking and highly successful book that set the agenda for a new field of study. Borrowing the...
Young Children's Acquisition of Verbs
Most research on children's lexical development has focused on their acquisition of names for concrete objects. This is the first edited volume to foc...
The studies in this volume measure the various behaviors that are displayed as infants and mothers share their attention on an outside object: joint e...
The influence of culture on cognitive development is well established for school age and older children. But almost nothing is known about how differe...
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