Joseph Henrich is an award-winning anthropologist, and a professor and chair of the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. He is the author of The Secret of our Success. He lives in Massachusetts.
A masterpiece. Staggering in range, intricate in detail, thrilling
in ambition, this book is a landmark in social thought. Henrich may
go down as the most influential social scientist of the first half
of the twenty-first century.
*bestselling author of 'Black Box Thinking' and 'Bounce'*
Illuminates a journey into human nature that is more exciting, more
complex and ultimately more consequential than has previously been
suspected.
*Nature*
A massively ambitious work that explains the transition to the
modern world ... Significantly contributes to our understanding
*Francis Fukuyama, author of The Origins of Political Order*
Engagingly written, excellently organized and meticulously argued .
. . This is an extraordinarily ambitious book, along the lines of
Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel ... We will all have to
change our perspective.
*New York Times*
The most absorbing, provocative and compelling book I have read in
a long time. 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.
*Emeritus Professor of Cognitive Development, University College
London*
Phenomenal ... The only theory I am aware of that attempts to
explain broad patterns of human psychology on a global scale.
*Washington Post*
This anthropology-meets-big-data approach is not merely innovative,
but underpins a fascinating and creative book, brimming with
provocative ideas.
*Financial Times*
There's nothing so fascinating as a social anthropologist's
analysis of his own tribe. Henrich shows how strange and
exceptional Western society is when compared with most of the
world
*John Barton, author of A History of the Bible*
Henrich has thought more deeply about cultural evolution than
anybody alive. His fascinating insights into just how weird people
like he and I are, with our western lifestyles, and what the
implications of that are for better and for worse, are a great
contribution to scholarship.
*author of 'How Innovation Works'*
Propelled by a bold vision, this landmark study is required reading
for anyone curious about the origins of modernity
*Walter Scheidel, author of The Great Leveler*
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