Joseph Henrich: 3 books
The Secret of Our Success
How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters, or avoiding predators. On the other hand, human groups have produced ingenious technologies, sophisticated languages,...
Why Humans Cooperate
A Cultural and Evolutionary Explanation
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2007
Cooperation among humans is one of the keys to our great evolutionary success. Natalie and Joseph Henrich examine this phenomena with a unique fusion of theoretical work on the evolution of cooperation, ethnographic descriptions of social behavior, and a range of other experimental results. Their...
by Don Ross, Jessica C Flack, Doug Erwin
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Essays from a range of disciplinary perspectives show the central role that cooperation plays in structuring our world.
This collection reports on the latest research on an increasingly pivotal issue for evolutionary biology: cooperation. The chapters are written from a variety of disciplinary...