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"Humans evolved big brains to be better problem-solvers." is a popular notion, but it has some conspicuous holes. Evolutionary biologist Joseph Henrich has an alternate hypothesis: what if we're evolved to be culture machines?



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Links for the Curious

“The Secret of Our Success,” 2016 talk by Joseph Henrich - https://www.lse.ac.uk/Events/Events-A...

Foundations of Human Sociality: Economic Experiments and Ethnographic Evidence from Fifteen Small-Scale Societies (Henrich et al, 2004) - https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/7e75...

Cultural Transmission and the Diffusion of Innovations: Adoption Dynamics Indicate That Biased Cultural Transmission Is the Predominate Force in Behavioral Change (Henrich 2001) - https://henrich.fas.harvard.edu/files...

The evolution of cultural evolution (Henrich & McElreath, 2003) - https://henrich.fas.harvard.edu/files...

Culture–gene coevolution, norm-psychology and the emergence of human prosociality (Chudek & Henrich, 2011) - https://www2.psych.ubc.ca/~henrich/pd...

Imitation and Innovation: Dual Engines of Cultural Learning (Legare & Nielsen, 2015) - https://static1.squarespace.com/stati...

The cultural niche: Why social learning is essential for human adaptation (Boyd et al, 2011) - https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/108...

Social Learning Strategies (Laland, 2004) - https://link.springer.com/content/pdf...

The Origin of Modern Human Behavior: Critique of the Models and Their Test Implications (Henshilwood & Marean, 2003) - https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_in...

The Secret of Our Success - https://canvas.harvard.edu/files/1126...

https://www.susanblackmore.uk/article...

Humans Have Evolved Specialized Skills of Social Cognition: The Cultural Intelligence Hypothesis - https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/06/04...

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/do...