The Secret of Our Success
How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter
Recommended by Suzana Herculano-Houzel, and 1 others. See all reviewsRanked #39 in Evolutionary Psychology
Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often unable to solve basic problems, like obtaining food, building shelters, or avoiding predators. On the other hand, human groups have produced innovative technologies, sophisticated languages, and complex institutions that have permitted us to successfully expand into environments across the globe. What has enabled us to dominate such a vast range of environments, more than any other species? As this book shows, the secret of our success lies not in our innate intelligence, but in our collective... more
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Suzana Herculano-Houzel We’ve come well past the point where a single person could hold all the cultural knowledge of the species. (Source)
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