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Joe Henrich

Joe Henrich

Joseph (Joe) Henrich is an American anthropologist and Ruth Moore Professor of Biological Anthropology and Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University.

Sep 6, 2026

Robinson's Podcast

Robinson's Podcast

289 - Joe Henrich: How Culture Made Humans Weird

Sep 6 · 1h 5m

Robinson ErhardtHOST
15:05
And what are the ways in which culture had to evolve on your theory to enable the vast cities of people living together?
Joe Henrich
Joe HenrichGUEST
15:15
Yeah.
Joe Henrich
Joe HenrichGUEST
15:16
So the way I think about it is humans have a bunch of innate features of our psychology.
Joe Henrich
Joe HenrichGUEST
15:21
So I agree with the folks I was just mentioning on that.
Joe Henrich
Joe HenrichGUEST
15:25
And that is include things like our kin psychology.
Joe Henrich
Joe HenrichGUEST
15:28
So this inclination to preferentially help close genealogical blood relatives.
Joe Henrich
Joe HenrichGUEST
15:34
We also have incest avoidance.

24 MINS LATER

Robinson ErhardtHOST
39:27
But why do we want to buy Pepsi because the attractive person drinks Pepsi?

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