(Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)
Specialization: Social cognitive, learning and development, primatology, language learning
Accolades: Honorary Professor ofPsychology, University of Leipzig, Honorary Professor of Psychology, MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY, Co-Director, Wolfgang Köhler Primate Research Center

Professor Tomasello is the author of a number of influential books on primates, social cognition and language learning. He is currently the co-director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and remains an affiliate scientist in Psychobiology at the Yerkes Primate Center.

Professor Tomasello’s books include Primate Cognition (w/ J. Call, Oxford University Press, 1997), The New Psychology of Language: Cognitive and Functional Approaches to Language Structure (Vol 1 & 2; edited, Erlbaum, 1998; 2002), The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition (Harvard University Press, 1999), and Constructing a Language: A Usage-Based Theory of Lanuage Acquisition (Harvard U. Press, 2003).