{"product_id":"becoming-human-9780674248281","title":"Becoming Human","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMagisterial—merging primatology, developmental psychology, cognitive psychology and evolution…Makes an impressive argument that most distinctly human traits are established early in childhood and that the general chronology in which these traits appear can at least—and at last—be identified. -- David P. Barash * Wall Street Journal *\u003cbr\u003eHow does human psychological growth run in the first seven years, in particular how does it instill ‘culture’ in us? Tomasello addresses this question…by comparing us to chimpanzees and bonobos.  Most of all, how does the capacity for shared intentionality and self-regulation evolve in people?  This is a very thoughtful and also important book. -- Tyler Cowen * Marginal Revolution *\u003cbr\u003eAn empirically rich view of human uniqueness that is not only informed by developmental psychology but also by cross-cultural and comparative research. \u003ci\u003eBecoming Human\u003c\/i\u003e is a theory of human origins, but it is first and foremost an attempt to understand the constant unfolding of our nature. -- Ivan Gonzalez‐Cabrera * History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences *\u003cbr\u003eNo philosophical question is older than \u003ci\u003eWhat are we, we humans?\u003c\/i\u003e Michael Tomasello contributes a splendid, empirically based answer to this hoary debate in \u003ci\u003eBecoming Human\u003c\/i\u003e. -- Benjamin Gregg * International Dialogue *\u003cbr\u003eTheoretically daring, experimentally ingenious, and astonishingly generative, \u003ci\u003eBecoming Human\u003c\/i\u003e squarely tackles the abiding question of what makes us human. -- Susan Gelman, University of Michigan\u003cbr\u003eThis grand synthesis of three decades of collaborative research at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig is a landmark in our understanding of human development. -- Paul Harris, Harvard University\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBecoming Human\u003c\/i\u003e is destined to become a classic. Anyone who is interested in cognitive science, child development, human evolution, or comparative psychology should read this book. It surely would have provoked a letter from Darwin—an intellectual ancestor, along with Vygotsky, of this scientific masterpiece. -- Andrew Meltzoff, University of Washington\u003cbr\u003eThis is a must-read from a thinker who has had a major hand in our current understanding of the genealogy of human uniqueness and character. -- Henry Wellman, University of Michigan","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48865484013911,"sku":"9780674248281","price":18.86,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780674248281.jpg?v=1722274187","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/becoming-human-9780674248281","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}