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THE CULTURAL ORIGINS OF HUMAN COGNITION

Michael TOMASELLO - Psychology - 2009 - 256 pages
Bridging the gap between evolutionary theory and cultural psychology, Michael Tomasello argues that the roots of the human capacity for symbol-based culture are based in a ...
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Origins of Human Communication

Michael Tomasello - Social Science - 2010 - 409 pages
A leading expert on evolution and communication presents an empirically based theory of the evolutionary origins of human communication that challenges the dominant Chomskian ...
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The Evolution of Primate Societies

John C. Mitani, Josep Call, Peter M. Kappeler, Ryne A. Palombit, Joan B. Silk - Science - 2012 - 728 pages
In 1987, the University of Chicago Press published Primate Societies, the standard reference in the field of primate behavior for an entire generation of students and ...
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Tool Use in Animals: Cognition and Ecology

Crickette M. Sanz, Josep Call, Christophe Boesch - Psychology - 2013 - 326 pages
Presentation of groundbreaking research on an extensive range of tool using animals, looking particularly at the evolution of cognitive abilities.
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A Natural History of Human Thinking

Michael Tomasello - Psychology - 2014 - 193 pages
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 since Darwin, thinkers have ...
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A Natural History of Human Thinking

Michael Tomasello - Psychology - 2014 - 192 pages
Tool-making or culture, language or religious belief: ever since Darwin, thinkers have struggled to identify what fundamentally differentiates human beings from other animals ...
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Reaching Into Thought: The Minds of the Great Apes

Anne E. Russon, Kim A. Bard, Sue Taylor Parker - Psychology - 1998 - 484 pages
This book investigates current field and theoretical information on great ape cognition.
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Primate Societies

Barbara B. Smuts - Nature - 1987 - 604 pages
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Great Ape Societies

William C. McGrew, Linda F. Marchant, Toshisada Nishida - Psychology - 1996 - 354 pages
The great apes (chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas and orangutans) are our closest living relatives, sharing a common ancestor only five million years ago. We also share key ...
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