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03728aam a2200445 i 4500 001 613A91B826B811E994CCD44997128E48 003 SILO 005 20190202010039 008 180426t20192019maua b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2018014212 020 $a 0674980859 020 $a 9780674980853 035 $a (OCoLC)1028612527 040 $a MH/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d ERASA $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d TOH $d HLS $d YDX $d OCLCO $d YAM $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a BF713 $b .T655 2019 082 00 $a 155 $2 23 100 1 $a Tomasello, Michael, $e author. 245 10 $a Becoming human : $b a theory of ontogeny / $c Michael Tomasello. 264 1 $a Cambridge, Massachusetts : $b The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, $c 2019. 300 $a x, 379 pages ; $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm 520 $a 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 ontogenetic processes. His data-driven model explains how those things that make us most human are constructed during the first years of a child's life. Tomasello assembles nearly three decades of experimental work with chimpanzees, bonobos, and human children to propose a new framework for psychological development between birth and seven years of age. He identifies eight pathways that starkly differentiate humans from their closest 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 then, Tomasello argues, the maturation of humans' evolved capacities for shared intentionality transform these abilities into uniquely human cognition and sociality. The first step occurs around nine months, with the emergence of joint intentionality, exercised mostly with caregiving adults. The second step occurs around three years, with the emergence of collective intentionality involving both authoritative adults, who convey cultural knowledge, and coequal peers, who elicit collaboration and communication. Finally, by age six or seven, children become responsible for self-regulating their beliefs and actions so that they comport with cultural norms. Built on the essential ideas of Lev Vygotsky, Becoming Human places human sociocultural activity within the framework of modern evolutionary theory, and shows how biology creates the conditions under which culture does its work.-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a I. Background. In search of human uniqueness ; Evolutionary foundations -- II. The ontogeny of uniquely human cognition. Social cognition ; Communication ; Cultural learning ; Cooperative thinking -- III. The ontogeny of uniquely human sociality. Collaboration ; Prosociality ; Social norms ; Moral identity -- IV. Conclusion. A neo-Vygotskian theory ; The power of shared agency. 650 0 $a Developmental psychology. 650 0 $a Ontogeny. 650 0 $a Socialization. 650 0 $a Evolutionary psychology. 650 0 $a Behavior evolution. 650 7 $a Behavior evolution. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00829910 650 7 $a Developmental psychology. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00891816 650 7 $a Evolutionary psychology. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00917348 650 7 $a Ontogeny. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01045991 650 7 $a Socialization. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01123768 650 7 $a PSYCHOLOGY / General. $2 bisacsh 941 $a 2 952 $l USUX851 $d 20220602021828.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317022931.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=613A91B826B811E994CCD44997128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search