Joe Henrich and Cosimo Posth: the weirdest people in the world and the genetics of Ice Age Europe

·Razib Khan··

Between 2017 and 2020 Razib co-hosted the podcast The Insight. A year ago it went offline, but now the archives are back! On this episode of Unsupervised Learning, Razib re-posts two important episodes from The Insight. First, a conversation with evolutionary anthropologist Joe Henrich about his 2020 book The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous. Second, starting at 51 minutes and 45 seconds, Razib interviews Cosimo Posth about a ...

Read full article →

Related Articles

Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks
littlexsparkee · Hacker News · 4d ago
Underwater robot tracks sperm whale conversations in real time
thedebuglife · Hacker News · 5d ago
Linking spatial biology and clinical histology via Haiku
Yan Cui, Jacob S. Leiby, Wenhui Lei, Dokyoon Kim, Yanxiang Deng, Aaron T. Mayer, Zhenqin Wu, Alexandro E. Trevino, Zhi Huang · ArXiv cs.LG · 3d ago
CGM-JEPA: Learning Consistent Continuous Glucose Monitor Representations via Predictive Self-Supervised Pretraining
Hada Melino Muhammad, Zechen Li, Flora Salim, Ahmed A. Metwally · ArXiv cs.LG · 3d ago
CellxPert: Inference-Time MCMC Steering of a Multi-Omics Single-Cell Foundation Model for In-Silico Perturbation
Andac Demir, Erik W. Anderson, Jeremy L. Jenkins, Srayanta Mukherjee · ArXiv q-bio · 3d ago