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    The Weirdest People in the World

    Joseph Henrich

    An exhilarating account of how psychology, culture and institutions co-evolved to produce the Western mind

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    The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter

    Joseph Henrich

    Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building…

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    The Weirdest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous

    Joseph Henrich

    Harvard University’s Joseph Henrich, Chair of the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, delivers [an] … investigation into the development of the Western mind, global psychological diversity, and its impact on…

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    Why Humans Cooperate: A Cultural and Evolutionary Explanation

    Joseph Henrich,Natalie Henrich

    Cooperation among humans is one of the keys to our great evolutionary success. This book examines this phenomena with a fusion of theoretical work on the evolution of cooperation, ethnographic…

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    Experimenting With Social Norms: Fairness and Punishment in Cross-Cultural Perspective

    Questions about the origins of human cooperation have long puzzled and divided scientists. Social norms that foster fair-minded behavior, altruism and collective action undergird the foundations of large-scale human societies…

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    The Evolution of Religion and Morality

    The volume assesses the role of religion in cooperation and prosocial behaviour using ethnographic and experimental methods in eight field sites. It presents results from the first phase of Evolution…

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    Why Humans Cooperate: A Cultural and Evolutionary Explanation

    Joseph Henrich (Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Emory University),Natalie Henrich (Adjunct Professor, Department of Anthropology, Adjunct Professor, Department of Anthropology, Emory University)

    Cooperation among humans is one of the keys to our great evolutionary success. Natalie and Joseph Henrich examine this phenomena with a unique fusion of theoretical work on the evolution…

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    The Evolution of Religion and Morality

    The volume draws on a unique dataset from 15 field sites to answer pressing questions about human religiosity. Building upon the first volume, it presents results from the second phase…

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    Language History, Language Change, and Language Relationship: An Introduction to Historical and Comparative Linguistics

    Hans Henrich Hock,Brian D. Joseph

    Why does language change? Why can we speak to and understand our parents but have trouble reading Shakespeare? This book provides answers to questions like these with illustrations from both…

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    Language History, Language Change, and Language Relationship: An Introduction to Historical and Comparative Linguistics

    Hans Henrich Hock,Brian D. Joseph

    Why does language change? Why can we speak to and understand our parents but have trouble reading Shakespeare? This book provides answers to questions like these with illustrations from both…

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    Language History, Language Change, and Language Relationship: An Introduction to Historical and Comparative Linguistics

    Hans Henrich Hock,Brian D. Joseph

    Why does language change? Why can we speak to and understand our parents but have trouble reading Shakespeare? Why are Americans and English ‘one people divided by a common language’…

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    Foundations of Human Sociality: Economic Experiments and Ethnographic Evidence from Fifteen Small-Scale Societies

    Combining ethnographic and experimental approaches, this book reports the results of a large cross-cultural study aimed at determining the sources of social (non-selfish) preferences that underlie the diversity of human…

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    Foundations of Human Sociality: Economic Experiments and Ethnographic Evidence from Fifteen Small-scale Societies

    Addresses the nature of human sociality. By bringing together experimental and ethnographic data from 15 different tribal societies, the contributors are able to explore the universality of human motives in…

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