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Unique Human Cognition Is Bound to Sociality
The uniquely human cognitive capacity is intimately bound up with a unique social capacity: humans don't operate on individual brainpower but are adapted to leverage what other people know, collaborating, communicating, socially learning, and teaching, which is why a chimp and a child raised in isolation would not end up that different, but a child raised in human culture develops language, mathematics, and institutions.
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Michael TomaselloEvidence Quote
“the really unique cognitive part is intimately bound up with the unique social part, that what we do is put our heads together with others”
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225 | Michael Tomasello on The Social Origins of Cognition and Agency— Sean Carroll's MindscapeCreated: 6/13/2026, 12:05:28 AM
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