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The Evolution of Agency
Behavioral Organization from Lizards to Humans
Book • 2022
In 'The Evolution of Agency', Michael Tomasello proposes a theoretical framework outlining four main forms of psychological agency: goal-directed agency in ancient vertebrates, intentional agency in ancient mammals, rational agency in ancient great apes, and socially normative agency in ancient humans.
This framework deepens our understanding of how agency evolved to enable complex decision-making and social behaviors in humans.
This framework deepens our understanding of how agency evolved to enable complex decision-making and social behaviors in humans.
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as the author of a new book on the evolution of agency.


Sean Carroll

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for understanding human social interaction and culture in relation to intelligence and AGI.

Will Knight

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