Joseph Henrich
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American evolutionary anthropologist at Harvard University, author of The Secret of Our Success (2015) and The WEIRDest People in the World (2020).
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Something cannot be a moral patient if it does not feel. (opens korrents.com)
“Something can't be a moral patient if it doesn't feel.”
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Claude's constitution leans too much on moral philosophy and too little on evolutionary biology. (opens korrents.com)
“The problem I found was too much moral philosophy and not enough evolutionary biology.”
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Something cannot be a moral patient if it does not feel. (opens korrents.com)
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6 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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The Selfish Gene (opens rcmnd.app)
“I really picked this book because for me, and I think for lots of people, it was an entry point into thinking about applying evolutionary principles to human behaviour. In a very user-friendly way, it gives you some of…”
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Culture and the Evolutionary Process (opens rcmnd.app)
“But it is Boyd and Richerson who ended up writing a book, in 1985, called Culture and the Evolutionary Process, which is a highly technical book, but really lays out a framework for thinking about the interaction…”
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Not by Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution (opens rcmnd.app)
“Finally, Not by Genes Alone puts together 30 years of research in one place. It makes the case that culture is really important, that it is evolving, and that we can solve lots of problems—like explaining 'the…”
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The Selfish Gene (opens rcmnd.app)