The Evolution of Culture with Joseph Henrich [S2 Ep.20]

Conversations with Coleman

The Free Press

Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.5 • 614 Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Welcome to another episode of Conversations with Coleman. My guest today is Joseph Henrich, a Professor of Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. Joseph is also the author of the books, "The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous", "The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter" and "Why Humans Cooperate: A Cultural and Evolutionary Explanation (Evolution and Cognition)" We talk about the ways in which cultural practices have shaped human biology, why culture is the real reason why humans dominate over the animal kingdom, the implicit wisdom in many tribal cultural traditions, lactose intolerance, and other ways that culture has interacted with genetics, so-called WEIRD cultures (Western Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic) and how they differ from more traditional cultures and much more. #Ad We deserve to know what we’re putting in our bodies and why, especially when it comes to something we take every day. Ritual’s clean, vegan-friendly multivitamin is formulated with high-quality nutrients in bioavailable forms your body can actually use. These multivitamins do not contain Sugars, GMOs, major allergens, synthetic fillers, or artificial colorants. Ritual is offering listeners of this podcast 10% off during the first three months. Visit ritual.com/Coleman to start your ritual today. #Ad Are you concerned about your privacy when browsing the internet? Internet service providers can sell information to Ad companies and tech giants, who then use your data to target you. ExpressVPN creates a secure, encrypted tunnel between your device and the internet, so no one including your ISPs can peep on your online activity. It is also available on all your devices – phones, laptops, and routers—so everyone who shares your Wi-Fi can be protected as well. Visit my special link EXPRESSVPN.com/Coleman to get an extra three months of ExpressVPN for free! #ColemanHughes #JosephHenrich #Evolution #Culture #WEIRD #WesternEducated #Industrialized #Rich #Democratic #ConversationswithColeman #CwC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:23.7	All right.
1:24.4	My guest today is Joseph Henrik.
1:26.9	Joseph Henrik is a professor of evolutionary biology at Harvard University. He's also taught psychology and economics at the University of British Columbia and anthropology at Emory University. This episode is all about the power of culture. We talk about the ways in which cultural practices have shaped
1:45.4	human biology. Joseph explains why culture is the real reason why humans dominate over the animal
1:51.4	kingdom. We talk about the implicit wisdom in many tribal cultural traditions. We talk about lactose
1:58.2	intolerance and other ways that culture has interacted with genetics.
2:02.6	We talk about how cultural differences between groups can cause measurable psychological differences between them.
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