Michael Tomasello is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University, and emeritus director at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. His research focuses on processes of cooperation, communication, and cultural learning in human children and other great apes. His many publications include Primate Cognition (OUP, 1997), Why We Cooperate (MIT Press, 2009), Becoming Human: A Theory of Ontogeny (Harvard University Press, 2019), and The Evolution of Agency (MIT Press, 2022).

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• 1: Not By Learning Alone 2: Agency and Cognition I. Early Infancy 3: Goal-Directed Agency and Iconic Representations II. Toddlerhood 4: Intentional Agency and Imaginative Representations 5: Joint Agency and Perspectival Representations III. Early Childhood 6: Metacognitive Agency and Multi-Perspectival Representations 7: Collective Agency and Objective/Normative Representations IV. Moving Forward 8: An Agency-Based Model of Human Cognitive Development 9: he Child as Scientist Revisited References Index

Michael Tomasello is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University, and emeritus director at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. His research focuses on processes of cooperation, communication, and cultural learning in human children and other great apes. His many publications include Primate Cognition (OUP, 1997), Why We Cooperate (MIT Press, 2009), Becoming Human: A Theory of Ontogeny (Harvard University Press, 2019), and The Evolution of Agency (MIT Press, 2022).

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• 1: Not By Learning Alone 2: Agency and Cognition I. Early Infancy 3: Goal-Directed Agency and Iconic Representations II. Toddlerhood 4: Intentional Agency and Imaginative Representations 5: Joint Agency and Perspectival Representations III. Early Childhood 6: Metacognitive Agency and Multi-Perspectival Representations 7: Collective Agency and Objective/Normative Representations IV. Moving Forward 8: An Agency-Based Model of Human Cognitive Development 9: he Child as Scientist Revisited References Index

Michael Tomasello is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University, and emeritus director at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. His research focuses on processes of cooperation, communication, and cultural learning in human children and other great apes. His many publications include Primate Cognition (OUP, 1997), Why We Cooperate (MIT Press, 2009), Becoming Human: A Theory of Ontogeny (Harvard University Press, 2019), and The Evolution of Agency (MIT Press, 2022).

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• 1: Not By Learning Alone 2: Agency and Cognition I. Early Infancy 3: Goal-Directed Agency and Iconic Representations II. Toddlerhood 4: Intentional Agency and Imaginative Representations 5: Joint Agency and Perspectival Representations III. Early Childhood 6: Metacognitive Agency and Multi-Perspectival Representations 7: Collective Agency and Objective/Normative Representations IV. Moving Forward 8: An Agency-Based Model of Human Cognitive Development 9: he Child as Scientist Revisited References Index