The Secret of our Success
CBC Radio | Posted: March 4, 2016 8:43 PM | Last Updated: March 4, 2016
Cultural Evolution, not innate intelligence, is what makes humans unique
Humans are the most successful species on the planet - well, maybe after the ants - and we generally give the credit to our large brains, and our individual intelligence.
But in a new book, Dr. Joseph Henrich, a professor of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University, says that individually humans aren't really that special. He makes the case that it's our collective intelligence - our culture - enabled by our unique ability to learn from each other - that's driven our biological evolution, and that's really behind our unique success.
Dr. Henrich's book is called, The Secret of Our Success - How Culture is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating our Species, and Making us Smarter.
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