Book ID: CBB815225132

Becoming Human: A Theory of Ontogeny (2019)

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Tomasello, Michael (Author)


Harvard University Press


Publication Date: 2019
Physical Details: 383
Language: English

Virtually all theories of how humans have become such a distinctive species focus on evolution. Becoming Human proposes a complementary theory of human uniqueness, focused on development. Building on the seminal ideas of Vygotsky, it explains how those things that make us most human are constructed during the first 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.

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Review Ivan Gonzalez-Cabrera (2020) Review of "Becoming Human: A Theory of Ontogeny". History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences (p. 48). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Herman, Ellen
Amy F. Ogata
Galle, Sara
Zwart, Hub
Neuhaus, Emmanuel
Lis, Daniel
Concepts
Child development
Developmental psychology; pediatrics and psychology
Children
Psychology
Definition of human; human nature
Personality; character
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
18th century
Places
United States
Great Britain
Southern Africa
Zurich (Switzerland)
Spain
Germany
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