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

by Joseph Henrich

Who uses, recommends or left The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Razib Khan
Geneticist and writer on human population genetics, history and evolution; author of the Unsupervised Learning newsletter.
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A decade on, it already feels possible that in the future, commentators will argue that this specific fruitful synthesis lit the fuse on evolutionary cultural anthropology’s explosion (with due apologies to earlier books from L. L. Cavalli-Sforza, E. O. Wilson, Peter Richerson and Robert Boyd).

Khan's New Year 'Time Well Spent' post, a short list of books that have stood up to repeat reading for him. He notes that Stuart Ritchie is a friend.

2026-01-01·razibkhan.com ↗

Robin Hanson
Economist at George Mason University; writes Overcoming Bias; author of The Age of Em and The Elephant in the Brain.
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Joseph Henrich schooled me. I felt like I learned more from his book than from the last dozen books I’ve read.

Hanson's review of Joseph Henrich's book on Overcoming Bias, titled 'How Plastic Are Values?'

2015-12-02·overcomingbias.com ↗

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