The Insight | 8 September 2020 | 0h 50m | Listen Later 
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Interview with Joseph Henrich about his book The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous. Discusses the co-evolution of culture, institutions, and psychology and the implications for the large-scale social, political, and economic forces that drive human history.
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Joseph Henrich on Cultural Evolution, WEIRD Societies, and Life Among Two Strange Tribes
Conversations with Tyler | 14 December 2016 | 1h 25m | Listen Later | iTunes
Interview with anthropologist Joseph Henrich, author of The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter. Argues that intelligence is overrated and that social learning, and its ability to influence biological evolution over time, is what really sets our species apart. Discusses his work on cultural evolution, his life among different tribes (academic and otherwise), China’s missing industrial revolution, and the Flynn effect.
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