About the Author

Michael Tomasello is Codirector of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig. He is the author of The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition and Constructing a Language- A Usage-Based Theory of Language Acquisition.

Reviews

The work of Tomasello and his colleagues provides the best and most exciting point of entry into a literature that will certainly shape philosophical debates for the years to come.
*Cambridge University Press*

... the fascinating approach to the question of what makes us human renders this a singularly worthwhile read.
*Publishers Weekly*