DySoC webinar: Joe Henrich - The Secret of Our Success (Feb 2021)

 DySoC webinar: Joe Henrich - The Secret of Our Success (Feb 2021)

So this was a great webinar:

Joe Henrich - The Secret of Our Success (Feb 2021)

Here's a few Notes I took:

Sergey & Franz de Waal have a special edited issue of Evolutionary Human Sciences coming out soon. 

Sergey mentioned these 3 books:

Sergey introduced Joe:

Joe's talk:

 

Joe spoke about: (among many other things - watch the whole video at the DySoC site!)

Burke & Wills (Lost European Explorers)Wheels are hard to invent! They were only invented in Eurasia. About 6k years ago.Zero was invented twice, by the Mayans and in Indiab and d are hard to learn: lateral mirror invariant"techno-units" = separate parts (of a machine, invention, etc) - measures of complexityDominance status vs Prestige statusWe benefit from pre-solved cultural problems (cultural inheritance)Culture definition: Information stored in our brains that got there via a learning process Bio/Cult ev tradeoff - We humanimal-apes lost our strong jaws and sharp teeth as we invented cutting tools, in solving problems of eatingMore education selects against having more babiesImmigration = Innovation (let in more folks and you get more patents)Language solves co-ordination not cooperation per se

Anyway, great webinar! 

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 Well, that's about all we have time for, folks.


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