225 | Michael Tomasello on The Social Origins of Cognition and Agency
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
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Evolutionary Pressures and Human Behavior
Humans are influenced by various factors in their behavior, such as concern for reputation, perspective-taking, cooperation, communication, and negotiation. While these factors may seem like innate modules, they are part of a larger organizational framework. This suggests that humans, like great apes, have not developed separate adaptations for social institutions, language, theory of mind, and mathematics in the last million years.
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