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Not by Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution
Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd ISBN 0226712125
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Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd ISBN 0226712125
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This book by Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd came up once on Andrew Huberman in the episodes we index. That mention was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: Lisa Feldman Barrett. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
"Not by Genes Alone offers a radical interpretation of human evolution, arguing that our ecological dominance and our singular social systems stem from a psychology uniquely adapted to create complex culture. Richerson and Boyd illustrate here that culture is neither superorganic nor the handmaiden of the genes. Rather, it is essential to human adaptation, as much a part of human biology as bipedal locomotion.
“there's a really wonderful book called not by genes alone basically there's cultural inheritance we have the kind of nature that requires nurture”— Lisa Feldman Barrett
The guest here is Dr. Lisa Feldman Barrett: Distinguished professor of psychology at Northeastern University with appointments at Harvard Medical School and Mass General, where she is chief scientific officer of the Center for Law, Brain and Behavior. She is one of the world's top experts on the science of emotion and author of 'How Emotions Are Made' and 'Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain.'. Neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett dismantles the myth of universal emotions, explaining how the brain constructs them to budget the body.
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