Michael Tomasello
Biographic Data
| ID | 3636211 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Tomasello |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Tomasello |
| SIGNATURE | TOMASELLO M |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1905 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
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A Natural History of Human Morality
Michael Tomasello offers the most detailed account to date of the evolution of human moral psychology. Based on experimental data comparing great apes and human children, he reconstructs two key evolutionary steps whereby early humans gradually became an ultra-cooperative and, eventually, a moral species capable of acting as a plural agent “we”
Constructing a language
The cultural origins of human cognition
From an Evolutionary point of view, human cognition is a puzzle. Human beings have been a distinct species for only a very short time, but in this short time we have developed the skills needed to create complex tools and technologies, languages and other symbol systems, and complex social institutions like governments and religions.". "Many current theories of human cognition stress its biological roots, while others stress its cultural roots. T…
Beyond Names for Things
Una historia natural del pensamiento humano
«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 …
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Una historia natural del pensamiento humano
«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 …
Beyond Names for Things
The cultural origins of human cognition
From an Evolutionary point of view, human cognition is a puzzle. Human beings have been a distinct species for only a very short time, but in this short time we have developed the skills needed to create complex tools and technologies, languages and other symbol systems, and complex social institutions like governments and religions.". "Many current theories of human cognition stress its biological roots, while others stress its cultural roots. T…
Constructing a language
A Natural History of Human Morality
Michael Tomasello offers the most detailed account to date of the evolution of human moral psychology. Based on experimental data comparing great apes and human children, he reconstructs two key evolutionary steps whereby early humans gradually became an ultra-cooperative and, eventually, a moral species capable of acting as a plural agent “we”
Who to ask? Children’s partner choice reveals sensitivity to reputational incentives.
Archaeology (2 works) · Cognition in children (2 works) · Cognition in children (2 works) · History (2 works) · Language acquisition (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Acquisition (1 work) · Anthropology (1 work) · Biology (1 work) · Child (1 work)