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Michael Tomasello

Michael Tomasello is a Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina and emeritus Co-Director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.  His research interests focus on processes of social cognition, social learning, and communication/language in human children and great apes. His recent books include Origins of Human Communication (MIT Press, 2008), Why We Cooperate (MIT Press, 2009), A Natural History of Human Thinking (Harvard University Press, 2014), and A Natural History of Human Morality (Harvard University Press, 2016).