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This chapter discusses an alternative approach to our question “What is a Human?” that comes from the work of Michael Tomasello on normative rationality and normative morality. Tomasello argues that the goal of culture, and its outcome for most humans, is conformity.
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Gee, J.P. (2020). Another Attempt to Answer Our Question. In: What Is a Human?. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50382-6_14
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