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The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter
Henrich, Joseph. The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015.
Why this matters here
Henrich examines cumulative culture and socially transmitted knowledge. The bridge invokes this framework for the persistence of learned norms while keeping its account of curiosity separate from a single causal explanation.
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