Others were in jungles, surrounded by edible plants and animals. Some of them were in Arctic lands that the Inuit considered among their richest hunting grounds. They starved to death in the middle of endless plenty. These explorers usually starved to death. Henrich walks the reader through many stories about European explorers marooned in unfamiliar environments. In this view, we are smart enough to invent neat tools that help us survive and adapt to unfamiliar environments.Īgainst such theories: we cannot actually do this. Henrich wants to debunk (or at least clarify) a popular view where humans succeeded because of our raw intelligence. The Secret Of Our Success by anthropologist Joseph Henrich manages to be an amazing book anyway. ![]() “Culture is the secret of humanity’s success” sounds like the most vapid possible thesis.
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