Joseph Henrich

Well, because that – a typical answer is that it's our custom.

Yeah.

Or it's, you know, important to people around here to do it this way.

So we do it this way.

So just Hadza bows, for example, you know, I didn't do this research.

Jacob Harrison, Kim Hill, and Rob Boyd did it.

But they asked Hadza about their bows and about how they work and what the mechanics are.

So they understood some stuff.

So you use the bow and you get some mechanical understanding.

But if you ask them, you know, what if you used a different wood, different materials, and they had never tried anything else but what they learned how to make this bow.

So they didn't, you know, they couldn't speak to a lot of that stuff.

And the things about the compression of the wood is very important.

I didn't understand that.

Right.

And the thing is, once something gets good, doing it differently almost always makes it worse.

Right.

So and then there's also some things are just different because people do it randomly different, like they make a mistake.

So I think people often underestimate the power of error in generating novelty.

Well, you probably as an adolescent were in school, right?

Yeah.