Earlier this month, I was invited to give a talk at Brunel University’s Centre for Culture and Evolution in London. In my talk, I discussed the cultural evolution of intelligence, including insights from my book A Theory of Everyone and from my previous work in these papers:
- Henrich, J. & Muthukrishna, M. (2023). What makes us smart? Topics in Cognitive Science. [Publisher][Download]
- Schimmelpfennig, R., Razek, L., Schnell, E., & Muthukrishna, M. (2021). Paradox of Diversity in the Collective Brain. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. [Download] [Summary Post] [Publisher] [Twitter]
- Muthukrishna, M. & Henrich, J. (2016). Innovation in the Collective Brain. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 371(1690). [Telegraph] [Scientific American] [Video] [Evonomics] [LSE Business Review] [Summary Post] [Download] [Data] [Publisher]
- Uchiyama, R., Spicer, R., & Muthukrishna, M. (2022). Cultural evolution of genetic heritability. Behavioral and Brain Sciences [Download] [Summary Post] [Publisher] [Twitter]
My thanks to the Centre for Culture and Evolution for inviting me and organizing the event!