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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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Great interview with one of the most important scientist in the world right now when it comes to understanding human behaviour, his research will shape the future of all social sciences.
Try to get Peter Turchin as well for an interview, would be very interesting especially right now
Nice! Great interview.
Very good interview with a the outstanding writer and scientist. Your questions and Henrich's explanations of the role of religion is very helpful and insightful.
Re: Genetic group selection... What if Homo sapiens genetically acquired the ability to be programmed by cultural group selection? So the genetic part came in for the formation of the wiring, but now it’s the culture norms that provide the content. (I’m speculating)
Have you seen the Darwin Debate with Small, Miller, Pinker and Jones? There are some similar positions postulated and debated. You're in decent company to think that. I'm not sure myself where I fall.
"You don't have people migrating from the richer society to the poorer society." -- Under some circumstances, you do. Thus, Englishmen who migrated to Britain's North American colonies in the 17th century were migrating from a richer society to a poorer society. Likewise for many Americans in the last fifty years who have migrated from richer US states in the north to poorer states in the sunbelt.
You make a good point, but it is said that there was a representation of great riches in the new world. Later there were representations of more opportunities for improvement in North America than UK, Europe. The maturation of sales and marketing or propaganda was a large factor in your example. A valid point, none the less.
20 ad breaks?
Give him a break. Just imagine the amount of homework necessary to keep up with and intelligently discuss with experts on such a plethora of subjects in order to make these interviews for *us*, the few-thousand-strong global audience with a systematic interest in such discussions.
@@bravesirrobin704 Apologies I was in a grumpy humour! I was angry at Google rather than Ricardo.
I think if you could make everyone 10% smarter, a lot more information would start flowing through the same connections. Further, higher general intelligence has far reaching effects, more than just idea generation. As for inventions, while serendipity certainly plays a large role, it also seems to be the case that "serendipitous" inventions do not occur randomly. Rather, serendipity seems to favor the upper half of the IQ distribution, especially for visuo-spatial IQ. Conversely, bad luck, such as being involved in "random" accidents or killed during an encounter with a policeman, seems to favor the lower half of the IQ distribution.
This is in line with the Flynn effect that Henrich mentions at ~40 minutes in.
There is more continuity in the behavior of our immigrants' lineages than this guest is willing to acknowledge. Also, the fact that our hunter gather ancestors thousands of years ago tended to breed with their female captives is not sufficient to prevent genetic group selection for various reasons which he also ignores. Like most social scientists, he is deeply mired in confirmation bias. The social science disciplines will not advance much further until they overcome their ideological insularity and integrate with genetics.
That's exactly what dual inheritance therory is and that's what his work is bard on