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Joseph Henrich (born 1968) is an American anthropologist and professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University. [1] Before arriving at Harvard, Henrich was a professor of psychology and economics at the University of British Columbia.
Sep 16, 2020 · Book argues these cultures make people more analytical, individualistic, impersonal. Joseph Henrich thinks many people reading this are probably WEIRD. He means no offense, only that they were raised in a society that is Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic.
Dr. Henrich (UCLA, Anthropology, 1999) is a professor and chair at Harvard University in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology. Broadly, his research focuses on cultural evolution, and culture-driven genetic evolution.
Joseph Henrich's research focuses on evolutionary approaches to psychology, decision-making and culture, and includes topics related to cultural learning, cultural evolution, culture-gene coevolution, human sociality, prestige, leadership, large-scale cooperation, religion and the emergence of complex human institutions.
Guiding Questions. What drove human evolution? How did our species go from being a relatively unremarkable primate a few million years ago to the most successful species on the globe? How has culture shaped our species genetic evolution, including our physiology, anatomy and psychology?
Dr. Henrich is currently the Ruth Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University.
Sep 8, 2020 · Joseph Henrich’s thrilling exposé of cultural variety and evolution is grounded in meticulous science, and his arguments go beyond the milestone of Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs and Steel. You will never look again in the same way at your own seemingly universal values.
