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RECORDED ON JUNE 12th 2020.
Dr. Joseph Henrich is Professor and chair of The Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. He is interested in the question of how humans evolved from "being a relatively unremarkable primate a few million years ago to the most successful species on the globe", and how culture affected our genetic development. He is also the author of The Secret of Our Success and The WEIRDest People in World.
In this episode, we talk about some of the main topics in Dr. Henrich’s vast and interdisciplinary work. We first discuss the trouble with trying to integrate knowledge from different social sciences. Then, we talk about biases in cultural transmission, and genetic and cultural evolution. We also discuss the evolution of human cooperation, how societies scaled up, and the role of prosocial religions and Big Gods. We also talk about the Cultural Brain Hypothesis, collective intelligence, and a cultural evolutionary take on IQ. We characterize WEIRD psychology, comment a bit on Cecilia Heyes’ take on cultural evolutionary theory, and finally get Dr. Henrich’s take on group selection.
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00:49 An integrative approach to the study of human behavior
06:36 Biases in cultural transmission
10:08 Can culture modify cognitive mechanisms? And how?
13:07 How to disentangle genetic evolution from cultural evolution
16:45 The evolution of human cooperation
22:05 How societies scaled up
23:55 The role of religion
29:23 Are there any atheistic societies out there?
34:00 The Cultural Brain Hypothesis, collective intelligence, and IQ
45:45 What is WEIRD psychology?
51:19 Are there aspects of human psychology that are more malleable by culture than others?
55:11 Is there a “human nature”?
57:42 About Cecillia Heyes’ work
1:03:00 Group selection (genetic and cultural)
1:10:15 Follow Dr. Henrich’s work!
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Twitter handle: @JoHenrich
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