The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
Harvard University’s Joseph Henrich, Chair of the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, delivers a bold, epic investigation into the development of the Western mind, global psychological diversity…
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