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Joseph Henrich uses leading-edge research in anthropology, psychology, economics and evolutionary biology to explore how changing family structures, marriage practices and religious beliefs in the Middle Ages shaped the Western mind, laying the foundations for the world we know today.
Joseph Henrich • The Weirdest People In The World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
“The secret of our species’ success lies not in our raw, innate intelligence or in any specialized mental abilities,” writes Harvard anthropologist Joseph Henrich. Instead, he argues it’s the ability to learn easily from the innovations of others that makes us uniquely capable as a species.
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The Weirdest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
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The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
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The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
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all recruit heavily from populations with segmentary lineages, and the character of their kin-based institutions may have shaped the particular religious creeds adopted by these groups.
Joseph Henrich • The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
large numbers of people behave in a fundamentally different way than do small numbers.
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The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter
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amazon.comstudying the motivations of individuals in isolation: the patterns we see are a fundamentally social affair. More, as Anderson