Very interesting interview of the american anthropologist Michael Tomasello (Max-Planck-Institut for Evolutionary Anthropology, Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Leibzig, Germany). The interview is conducted by Gert Scobel and was recorded in October 2008 on the German public channel 3Sat. This is the full version of the interview, which covers a broad range of topics from the notions of (shared) intentionality and its ontogenic emergence in human beings to the origins of human communication (in contrast to the one of the Great Apes), to the biological and cultural dimensions of human social behaviour, and to collaboration and altruism. Enjoy! (For more information on these topics, check Michael Tomasello's website: email.eva.mpg.de/~tomas/ , as well as the series of four lectures he gave upon receiving the Jean Nicod 2006 prize: www.institutnicod.org/lectures2006_outline.htm)

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