Joseph Henrich

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Dwarkesh Podcast · Joseph Henrich — Humans defeated smarter species with cultural evolution · 12 Mar 2025 podcast

So really, human history is a story of these different expansions.

And it could be that this expansion across Eurasia, which then led to interbreeding.

So we know it's the same species.

Humans interbred with Denisovans and Neanderthals, as well as probably other species.

There's a ghost species in there.

Yeah.

This could be just institutional changes.

So if you have institutions, for example, that interconnect your population, you can maintain more sophisticated technology.

And some paleoanthropologists, for example, have speculated, with some evidence, that the expanding populations had projectile weapons, so bows and arrows.

And humans have periodically gained and lost bows and arrows in different parts of the world.

So in Australia, for example, bows and arrows are never invented.

In the New World, when the arrivals populations probably didn't have bows and arrows, but then later developed bows and arrows.

Although the new world, everybody has dogs and you can pull carts with dogs.

Yeah.

So I've never really bought that.

Unfortunately, you can use llamas in the new world to pull carts as well.

People do that today.

Yeah.

So what's your explanation for why there's no wheels in the new world?

Well, so there were wheels on Mayan carts or Mayan toys.

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