Why Western Europeans are so WEIRD and why that matters!

The Insight by Neeraj Rao

Sep 8, 202050:21Science & Medicine

Razib talks to evolutionary anthropologist Joe Henrich about his new book, The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous,

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