The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter

The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter

The Matt Townsend Show - Season 7, Episode 40 , Segment 2

Common Core, Our Cultural Success, What to Say in Marriage

Episode: Common Core, Our Cultural Success, What to Say in Marriage

  • Feb 15, 2018 5:00 pm
  • 49:04 mins

Joseph Henrich, Ph.D.,  is the Canada Research Chair in Culture, Cognition, and Coevolution at the University of British Columbia, where he teaches both Economics and Psychology. He is also Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology, at Harvard. His new book is The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter. Professor Joe Henrich argues it’s not our brains that saved us, but our culture.