Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 248 pages)
Edition:
Primera edición en español
ISBN:
9789587746495
,
958774649X
,
9561423863
,
9789561423862
Uniform Title:
Natural history of human thinking (Correa)
Content:
Reviewing his earlier work, Tomasello argues that apes are cognitively much closer to humans than was believed just a decade ago. The great virtue of A Natural History of Human Thought is its conceptual analysis of the cumulative steps that were required in terms of cognition to transform us from apes to humans." —Stephen Levinson, Science. In A Natural History of Human Thought Michael Tomasello argues that cooperative social interaction is the key to the cognitive uniqueness of humans. Once our ancestors learned to think together to achieve common goals, the human race forged an evolutionary path of its own. Our human ancestors, like today's great apes, were social beings who could solve problems through thought, but were competitive and aimed only at their individual goals. As ecological changes forced them to be more cooperative, early humans had to coordinate their actions and communicate their thoughts, spawning new forms of collaborative interaction. The hypothesis of shared intentionality that Tomasello proposes in this book explains how these more socially complex forms of life led to more conceptually complex ways of thinking. To survive, humans had to learn to see the world from multiple social perspectives, to make socially recursive inferences, and to monitor their own thinking according to group normative standards. Even language and culture arose from the pre-existing need to work together. A Natural History of Human Thought is the most detailed scientific analysis of the connection between human sociability and cognition published to date
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Tomasello, Michael Historia natural del pensamiento humano Bogotá : Universidad de los Andes, ©2019 ISBN 9789587746488
Language:
Spanish
Author information:
Tomasello, Michael 1950-
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