Michael Tomasello On the Surprising Origins of Communication and Cooperation
Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda
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The Evolution of Communication in Children
For us humans, the things that make us most human are constructed during the first years of a child's life. In chimps, when one of them screams, what it naturally does is you look at the screamer. So we are both evolved to be especially cooperative and to use this kind of communication to facilitate and coordinate our cooperation.
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