Joseph Henrich

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

And if you're in Northern Namibia, you got to be able to move through the landscape.

So being able to just pick a direction and know where you're going and not get lost is super important.

So different suites of cognitive abilities are favored in different environments.

This idea that there's this generalized thing applicable across all human environments just doesn't, I mean, education massively increases your IQ, right?

If you're uneducated, you have a totally different IQ.

Well, so I think it's a continuous scale.

So if you look at human brains, they're developing and continuing to add new connections and stuff, at least into the mid-20s.

Now, there could be even more plasticity after that.

Unlike chimps, we're still not totally myelinized for our whole lives.

So there's definitely room.

It's just there's less room.

Yeah.

So super important.

So we'll take the patent database.

And if your same-sex parent has to be same-sex, patents in a particular domain, you're nine times more likely to patent in that same domain.

Well, so these are very fine domains.

So we're talking about like natural adhesives versus synthetic adhesives.

So unless you think there's genes for that.

And same thing with transistors and electronics.

So very fine domains.

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