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AFTER CERTAINTY

Person

Joseph Henrich

Anthropologist and evolutionary theorist of cultural evolution, collective brains, and how societies scale cooperation differently.

Why this matters

Henrich explains variation in norms and institutions—why what works in one moral community fails in another.

Works

book

The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution,

Henrich, Joseph. *The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter*. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015.

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