Heineken Prizes - Professor Michael Tomasello

The basic difference between humans and apes The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences has awarded the Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Cognitive Science (USD150,000) to Professor Michael Tomasello of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. He is receiving the prize because his multidisciplinary research has given us a much deeper understanding of cognitive processes in primates in general, and language acquisition processes in humans in particular.