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The evolution of human communication required our species- unique. Michael tomasello 5. Human communication is grounded in fundamentally cooperative, even shared, intentions. Based on experimental data comparing great apes and human children, he reconstructs two key evolutionary steps whereby early humans gradually became an ultra- cooperative and, eventually, a moral species capable of acting as a plural agent “ we”. Publication date: a leading expert on evolution and communication presents an empirically based theory of the evolutionary origins of human communication that challenges the dominant chomskian view. Infants of fourteen and eighteen months of age — just as they are beginning to walk and talk — confront an unrelated adult they have met just moments previously who has a simple problem. This bold and wide- ranging book, based on tomasello' s jean nicod lectures, argues inter alia for the following hypotheses: 1. Michael tomasello offers the most detailed account to date of the evolution of human moral psychology. Michael tomasello] origins of human ltruisma 77 helping the phenomenon, as we first reported it in warneken and tomasello (, ), is utterly simple. 1 introduction the usage- based approach to linguistic communication may be summar- ized in the two aphorisms: meaning is use structure emerges from use ‘ meaning is use’ represents an approach to the functional or semantic dimension of linguistic communication. Michael tomasello’ s insights, gleaned from nearly three decades of research on great apes and chil- dren, help answer a fundamental question: how do humans differ from other great apes in cognition and sociality?
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