Joseph Henrich: The Secret of Our Success

Joseph Henrich. Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University

Professor Henrich sheds light on how societies learn by combining historical accounts of lost European explorers and recent experiments in psychology.

[beenagiridharan]

Thanks for a great lecture. Would have been useful to see the screen too when the professor was referring to stats etc. The concepts of 'social learning', cultural transmissions and 'collective brains' need to be more reinforced in learning pedagogies.

[russcharif]

Unfortunately the recording is rendered less useful because Joe is frequently referring to slides projected on a screen but the camera never pans or zooms to enable us to see them. And the link provided above to the presentation file is now dead. Harvard should do better.

[simonarduin]

this "collective brains" idea is so powerful