BACKGROUND Culture—the inheritance of an array of behavioral traditions through social
learning from others—was once thought specific to humans. Recent and accumulating …

Foundations of Embodied Learning advances learning, instruction, and the design of
educational technologies by rethinking the learner as an integrated system of mind, body …

Winner of the William James Book Award “Magisterial... Makes an impressive argument that
most distinctly human traits are established early in childhood and that the general …

A New York Times bestseller:" A passionate and convincing case for the sophistication of
nonhuman minds."—Alison Gopnik, The Atlantic Hailed as a classic, Are We Smart Enough …

Michael Tomasello offers the most detailed account to date of the evolution of human moral
psychology. Based on experimental data comparing great apes and human children, he …

Human cultural traits—behaviors, ideas, and technologies that can be learned from other
individuals—can exhibit complex patterns of transmission and evolution, and researchers …

In human societies, cultural norms arise when behaviours are transmitted through social
networks via high-fidelity social learning. However, a paucity of experimental studies has …

Imitation and innovation work in tandem to support cultural learning in children and facilitate
our capacity for cumulative culture. Here we propose an integrated theoretical account of …

Cumulative technological culture (CTC) refers to the increase in the efficiency and
complexity of tools and techniques in human populations over generations. A fascinating …

In the songs and bubble feeding of humpback whales; in young killer whales learning to
knock a seal from an ice floe in the same way their mother does; and in the use of sea …