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The secret of our success: How culture is driving human evolution, domesticating our species, and making us smarter

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Author(s): Joseph Henrich
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Year: 2016

Language: English
Pages: 464
City: New Jersey

Preface ix
1 A Puzzling Primate 1
2 It’s Not Our Intelligence 8
3 Lost European Explorers 22
4 How to Make a Cultural Species 34
5 What Are Big Brains For? Or, How Culture Stole Our Guts 54
6 Why Some People Have Blue Eyes 83
7 On the Origin of Faith 97
8 Prestige, Dominance, and Menopause 117
9 In- Laws, Incest Taboos, and Rituals 140
10 Intergroup Competition Shapes Cultural Evolution 166
11 Self- Domestication 185
12 Our Collective Brains 211
13 Communicative Tools with Rules 231
14 Enculturated Brains and Honorable Hormones 260
15 When We Crossed the Rubicon 280
16 Why Us? 296
17 A New Kind of Animal 314
Notes 333
References 373
Illustration Credits 429
Index 431