Joseph Henrich, The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter (Princeton, NJ and Woodstock: Princeton University Press, 2016), 464 pp. ISBN: 978-0-69116-685-8. $29.95/£22.95 hbk.

Authors

  • Anders Klostergaard Petersen University of Aarhus

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/jch.33932

Keywords:

cultural evolution, evolutionary biology, moral psychology, study of religion

Abstract

Joseph Henrich, The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter (Princeton, NJ and Woodstock: Princeton University Press, 2016), 464 pp. ISBN: 978-0-69116-685-8. $29.95/£22.95 hbk.

Author Biography

  • Anders Klostergaard Petersen, University of Aarhus

    Anders Klostergaard Petersen, University of Aarhus, Denmark

References

de Waal, F. B. M. 2016. Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? New York and London: W.W. Norton.

Emery, N. 2016. Bird Brain: An Exploration of Avian Intelligence. Princeton, N.J. and Oxford: Princeton University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400882861

Rappaport, R. 1999. Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511814686

Turner, J. H. 2007. Human Emotions: A Sociological Theory. London and New York: Routledge.

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Published

2018-03-29

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 1-2 (2016): Special Issue: Digital Humanities, Cognitive Historiography , and the Study of Religion

Section

Book Reviews

How to Cite

Petersen, A. K. (2018). Joseph Henrich, The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter (Princeton, NJ and Woodstock: Princeton University Press, 2016), 464 pp. ISBN: 978-0-69116-685-8. $29.95/£22.95 hbk. Journal of Cognitive Historiography, 3(1-2), 236-239. https://doi.org/10.1558/jch.33932