Domenic Berducci did his A.B degree Anthropology at Temple University in Philadelphia focusing on human evolution, and continued at Temple for his M.A. in Anthropology doing work in cultural evolution. He completed his PhD at the University of Pennsylvania in Sociology working on cognition and learning in social interaction. He was a visiting fellow at the KLI, and works as an associate professor at Toyama University in Japan. His current research interests concern accounting for the ontogenetic origin of sociality in human infants biologically, without invoking innate cognitive ´phenomena.´