Joseph Henrich, evolutionary anthropologist:
"More than any other animal, we depend on learning from others. Cultural evolution occurs alongside biological evolution. You can look at a human & study the genes that they’ve inherited from their parents… but that person has also acquired beliefs, values, practices, norms, languages & ways of thinking from their parents & other members of their community."
https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2022-12-04/joseph-henrich-evolutionary-anthropologist-the-best-antidote-to-white-supremacy-is-more-science.html
#culture #cooperation #learning
"More than any other animal, we depend on learning from others. Cultural evolution occurs alongside biological evolution. You can look at a human & study the genes that they’ve inherited from their parents… but that person has also acquired beliefs, values, practices, norms, languages & ways of thinking from their parents & other members of their community."
https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2022-12-04/joseph-henrich-evolutionary-anthropologist-the-best-antidote-to-white-supremacy-is-more-science.html
#culture #cooperation #learning
Joseph Henrich, evolutionary anthropologist: ‘The best antidote to white supremacy is more science’
The chair of the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard spoke to EL PAÍS about immigration, social structures and his book on cultural evolutionJon Gurutz Arranz (Ediciones EL PAÍS S.L.)