03302cam a2200421 i 4500 17751697 BJBSDDR 20241210121941.0 ta 130524s2014 maua b 001 0 eng 2013020185 9780674724778 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0674724771 (hardcover : alk. paper) DLC eng DLC rda DLC eng pcc BF 311 T655n 2014 153 Tomasello, Michael, 1950- 39631 A natural history of human thinking / Michael Tomasello. Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2014. xi, 178 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-172) and index. The shared intentionality hypothesis Individual intentionality Joint intentionality Collective intentionality Human thinking as cooperation "Tool-making or culture, language or religious belief: ever since Darwin, thinkers have struggled to identify what fundamentally differentiates human beings from other animals. In this much-anticipated book, Michael Tomasello weaves his twenty years of comparative studies of humans and great apes into a compelling argument that cooperative social interaction is the key to our cognitive uniqueness. Once our ancestors learned to put their heads together with others to pursue shared goals, humankind was on an evolutionary path all its own. Tomasello argues that our prehuman ancestors, like today's great apes, were social beings who could solve problems by thinking. But they were almost entirely competitive, aiming only at their individual goals. As ecological changes forced them into more cooperative living arrangements, early humans had to coordinate their actions and communicate their thoughts with collaborative partners. Tomasello's 'shared intentionality hypothesis' captures how these more socially complex forms of life led to more conceptually complex forms of thinking. In order to survive, humans had to learn to see the world from multiple social perspectives, to draw socially recursive inferences, and to monitor their own thinking via the normative standards of the group. Even language and culture arose from the preexisting need to work together. What differentiates us most from other great apes, Tomasello proposes, are the new forms of thinking engendered by our new forms of collaborative and communicative interaction. A Natural History of Human Thinking is the most detailed scientific analysis to date of the connection between human sociality and cognition."--Publisher's description Cognition Social aspects. Cognición Aspectos sociales 39809 Evolutionary psychology. Psicología evolutiva 10818 Psychology, Comparative. Psicología comparada 39810 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK 122477 122477 0 0 lcc 0 0 HU BJB BJB HU 2024-11-27 0 BF 311 T655n 2014 00000121257 2024-11-27 00:00:00 1 2024-11-27 BK