¿Qué es lo que distingue a la naturaleza humana? Los teólogos han insistido en su propensión al vicio; Hobbes, en su disposición a la guerra; los padres, en las tendencias egoístas de los niños. Sin embargo...
«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...
«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...
âMagisterial..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.â
A Natural History of Human Morality offers the most detailed account to date of the evolution of human moral psychology. Based on extensive experimental data comparing great apes and human children, Michael Tomasello reconstructs how early humans graduall...
A leading expert on evolution and communication presents an empirically based theory of the evolutionary origins of human communication that challenges the dominant Chomskian view.
The Gestural Communication of Apes and Monkeys is an intriguing compilation of naturalistic and experimental research conducted over the course of 20 years on gestural communication in primates, as well as a comparison to what is known about the vocal...
First Verbs is a detailed diary study of one child's earliest language development during her second year of life. Using a Cognitive Linguistics framework, the author focuses on how his daughter acquired her first verbs, and the role verbs played in...
Beyond Nature-Nurture: Essays in Honor of Elizabeth Bates is a very special tribute to the University of California at San Diego, psycholinguist, developmental psychologist, and cognitive scientist Elizabeth Ann Bates, who died on December 14, 2003 from...
From the point of view of psychology and cognitive science, much of modern linguistics is too formal and mathematical to be of much use. The newly emerging approaches to language termed, "Functional and Cognitive Linguistics," however, are much...
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...
This book, which gathers in one place the theories of 10 leading cognitive and functional linguists, represents a new approach that may define the next era in the history of psychology: It promises to give psychologists a new appreciation of what this...
This book gathers the theories of leading cognitive and functional linguists in one place for cognitive scientists--particularly psychologists--long accustomed to the philosophical divide between themselves and formal linguists. For students & researc...
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 study of how she acquired her first verbs and analysed the role that verbs played in her early grammatical...