%0 Book %D 2019 %T Becoming Human: A Theory of Ontogeny %A Tomasello, M %X


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 that make us most human are constructed during the first years of a child’s life.


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.

%I Harvard University Press %P 392 %@ 9780674980853 %G eng %U http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674980853