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Science 5 May 2000:
Vol. 288. no. 5467, pp. 816 - 817
DOI: 10.1126/science.288.5467.816
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PSYCHOLOGY:
Et tu Homo sapiens?

A review by Marc D. Hauser

The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition
Michael Tomasello
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1999. 254 pp. $29.95. ISBN 0-674-00070-6.

Tomasello examines how, and why, humans differ from other species, particularly other primates. He argues that the we are distinguished by our unique capacity to put ourselves into the minds of others, which has allowed us to learn by imitation and inform by teaching.
The author is in the Department of Psychology and the Program in Neurosciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. E-mail: hauser{at}wjh.harvard.edu

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