Joseph Henrich, (Henrich 2016)
Summary
“Culture is the secret of humanity’s success”
See Scott Alexander | Book Review: The Secret Of Our Success.
- It’s
impossibledifficult to identify which traditions are useful and which are detrimental (i.e. using divination or augury, not eating shark while pregnant) - Humanity is resilient, capable, inventive, intelligent, resourceful; an individual human isn’t (i.e. European explorers dying in fertile, but unfamiliar, land where native peoples thrived)
Notes
Bibliography
Alexander, Scott. 2019. “Book Review: The Secret Of Our Success.” Slate Star Codex. https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/06/04/book-review-the-secret-of-our-success/.