We propose that the crucial difference between human cognition and that of other species is
the ability to participate with others in collaborative activities with shared goals and …

On the 30th anniversary of Premack and Woodruff's seminal paper asking whether
chimpanzees have a theory of mind, we review recent evidence that suggests in many …

Winner of the William James Book Award “Magisterial... Makes an impressive argument that
most distinctly human traits are established early in childhood and that the general …

Tool-making or culture, language or religious belief: ever since Darwin, thinkers have
struggled to identify what fundamentally differentiates human beings from other animals …

A leading expert on evolution and communication presents an empirically based theory of
the evolutionary origins of human communication that challenges the dominant Chomskian …

Michael Tomasello offers the most detailed account to date of the evolution of human moral
psychology. Based on experimental data comparing great apes and human children, he …

In this pithy two-part essay, Marshall Sahlins reinvigorates the debates on what constitutes
kinship, building on some of the best scholarship in the field to produce an original outlook …

Modern theories of the evolution of human cooperation focus mainly on altruism. In contrast,
we propose that humans' species-unique forms of cooperation—as well as their species …

Some researchers have claimed that chimpanzee and human culture rest on homologous
cognitive and learning mechanisms. While clearly there are some homologous mechanisms …

Developmental psychologists coined the term" theory of mind" to describe how we
understand our shifting mental states in daily life. Over the past twenty years researchers …