The Cultural and Ecological Nature of Intelligence

The Cultural and Ecological Nature of Intelligence

Abstract:
How do we reconcile the extraordinary success of the human species with the apparent stupidity of people and organizations? How can we understand the transformation of humans from foraging apes to urban clerks, without any appreciable change in physiology? No one has definitive answers to these questions, but we begin to answer them by appreciating the ways in which populations think over cultural and ecological time scales. 

Speaker: 
Richard McElreath, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, is an anthropologist focused on the role of culture in human evolution and adaptation.

 

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