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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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“the prosocial needs and rewards of a physically weak species that relied on collective parenting (Hrdy, 2009) and distributed knowledge (Tomasello, 2014; Henrich, 2016) to survive and carve a moral niche in a harsh world can similarly be hijacked to produce a manic theater of hyper-social monitoring”
From Hypernatural Monitoring: A Social Rehearsal Account of Smartphone Addiction (2018) · cites this paper as Henrich, 2016
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“Being neurologically adapted to imitate and to comply with group norms is one example of gene-culture co-evolution (Haidt, 2012: 241;Henrich, 2016;Henrich & Muthukrishna, 2021: 226;Richerson & Boyd, 2005).”
From Durkheim, Indoctrinability and the Moral Ambivalence of Human Sociality (2026) · cites this paper as Henrich, 2016
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“Cultural markers indicate who belongs to the same or similar cultural group and who is likely to share one's taken-for-granted knowledge, norms and morality (Henrich, 2016: 201;Tomasello, 2018: 91).”
From Durkheim, Indoctrinability and the Moral Ambivalence of Human Sociality (2026) · cites this paper as Henrich, 2016
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“For instance, morality and particular ways of regulating social interaction, e.g. by punishing norm violators (Eibl-Eibesfeldt, 1982: 187;Henrich, 2016: 196) or executing anti-social bullies (Boehm, 2000: 72-73; Wrangham 2019a: 146-153), determine the probability and the quality of collective goods.”
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“as noted, we are ultra-social and ultra-cooperative, and our beliefs about people's social standing, knowledge, intentions, abilities, etc. are critical for our flourishing (Sterelny 2007: 720;Tomasello 2014: 190f;Henrich 2016).”
From What Is the Function of Confirmation Bias? (2022) · cites this paper as Henrich 2016
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“and potentially support cultural group selection (Boyd & Richerson, 1985; Henrich 2015)”
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“Hypotheses for the evolution of increased cooperation could therefore in theory contribute to explaining why docility evolved (e.g., Henrich, 2016; Richerson et al., 2016).”
From Hypotheses for the Evolution of Reduced Reactive Aggression in the Context of Human Self-Domestication (2019) · cites this paper as Henrich, 2016
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“However, changes in individual cultural behavior that occurred on a longer time-scale are known to have led to gene-culture coevolution, e.g., the development of cooking, or milk-drinking by adults (Wrangham, 2009; Curry, 2013; Henrich, 2016).”
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“The ability of humans to create and disseminate culture is considered the single most important factor in our species' dominance on Earth 1 .”
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