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Mixing Memory: CogBlog: Tomasello, Chapter 1

Until two million years ago, the evolutionary path of modern humans was dominated by one genus, Australopithecus, which was much more ape-like than human-like, particularly in its cognitive abilities. And it appears that most of our modern cognitive ... Thus the single difference between humans and nonhuman animals that evolved about a quarter of a million years ago must be one that makes this understanding possible. Tomasello's hypothesis is that this single ...