Overview :Understanding cooperation as a distinctly human combination of innate and learned behavior.Drop something in front of a two-year-old, and sh... Read More
Overview :Soon after Charles Darwin formulated his theory of evolution, primate cognition became a major area of research. In this book, Michael Tomas... Read More
Overview :Winner of the William James Book Award"Magisterial...Makes an impressive argument that most distinctly human traits are established early in... Read More
Overview :A Wall Street Journal Favorite Read of the YearA Guardian Top Science Book of the YearTool-making or culture, language or religious belief: ... Read More
Overview :First published in 1997, Primate Cognition was a groundbreaking and highly successful book that set the agenda for a new field of study. Bor... Read More
Overview :Ambitious and elegant, this book builds a bridge between evolutionary theory and cultural psychology. Michael Tomasello is one of the very f... Read More
Overview :A leading expert on evolution and communication presents an empirically based theory of the evolutionary origins of human communication that... Read More
Overview :Winner of the Eleanor Maccoby Book Award in Developmental Psychology, American Psychological AssociationWinner of a PROSE Award, Association... Read More
Overview :Beyond Nature-Nurture: Essays in Honor of Elizabeth Bates is a very special tribute to the University of California at San Diego psycholingu... Read More
Overview :Children of different ages live in different worlds. This is partly due to learning: as children learn more and more about the world they ex... Read More
Overview :In this groundbreaking book, Michael Tomasello presents a comprehensive usage-based theory of language acquisition. Drawing together a vast ... Read More
Overview :First Verbs is a detailed diary study of one child's earliest language development during her second year of life. Using a Cognitive Linguis... Read More
Overview :This book, which gathers in one place the theories of 10 leading cognitive and functional linguists, represents a new approach that may defi... Read More
Overview :A leading developmental psychologist proposes an evolutionary pathway to human psychological agency. Nature cannot build organisms biologica... Read More