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Becoming Human

Hardcover • 2019 • 1. edition

Becoming Human

By Michael Tomasello

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About the book

A radical reconsideration of how we develop the qualities that make us human, based on decades of cutting-edge experimental work by the former director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.Virtually all theories of how humans have become such a distinctive species focus on evolution. Here, Michael Tomasello proposes a complementary theory of human uniqueness, focused on development. Building on the seminal ideas of Vygotsky, his data-driven model explains how those things th...Show more

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9780674980853

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Published year

2019

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1

Original title

Becoming Human

Format

Hardcover

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