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Understanding cumulative cultural evolution

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Joe Henrich

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Dr. Joseph Henrich Ruth Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology My research focuses on evolutionary approaches to psychology, decision-making and culture, and includes topics related to cultural learning...

The WEIRDest People in the World: A Dialogue with Joseph Henrich

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Click here to listen to Dr. Henrich's interview on Converging Dialogues! In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Joseph Henrich about WEIRD people and cultural evolution. They start the conversation by defining what WEIRD means and some of the...

The evolution of cultural evolution

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Prestige-biased cultural learning: bystander's differential attention to potential models influences children's learning

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Reasoning about the evolution of our species' capacity for cumulative cultural learning has led culture gene coevolutionary (CGC) theorists to predict that humans should possess several learning biases which robustly enhance the fitness of cultural...