Joseph Henrich

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

Yeah.

So Europeans are quite well mixed compared to other populations.

And so we were talking about India.

If you do a principal components analysis, so this two-dimensional plot of the genetic similarity, you can actually see the class and people are pretty spread out.

If you put the Europeans on the same plot, they're well mixed.

Right.

Yeah, good question.

I don't know the answer to that question.

So that would be, that's a nice piece of evidence.

So, you know, there's a couple of groups working on medieval ancient DNA.

So hopefully we'll have more answers on that question.

I mean, there is enough now of pre-Roman burials, so Bronze Age type stuff, showing that, you know, early Europeans definitely had complex, intensive kin groups, patrilineal, patrilocal residents, that kind of stuff, polygyny.

Well, I mean, the first thing to think about is those other authors.

I mean, possibly Greg Clark is an exception, but they don't think about the psychological variation that exists.

So there's good reason to think there's all these psychological differences, and you have to believe they don't cash out.

And if you think they exist, then you have to explain them.

And so you need a theory that explains them.

So Bob Allen has, I mean, he's a blank.

He's a blank on the psychological variation.

So let me give you some evidence that I think is some pretty good evidence.

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