The Evolution of Agency: Behavioral Organization from Lizards to Humans

by Michael Tomasello

A leading developmental psychologist proposes an evolutionary pathway to human psychological agency. Nature cannot build organisms biologically prepared for every contingency they might possibly encounter. Instead, Nature builds some organisms to function as feedback control systems that pursue goals, make informed behavioral decisions about how best to pursue those goals in the current situation, and then monitor behavioral execution for effectiveness...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262047004
• ISBN13: 9780262047005
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.1"