
Explaining Western Success
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The Origins of Religions
How can we account for rapid economic growth and the acceleration of innovation after 17 50 that emerged in some european populations and their cultural descendants in north america? I suspect that the convergence, or at least some of the convergence, bet weird and high contribution, lies in our similar points of departure. We readily attend to tate and unconsciously acquire a broad range of practices, social norms, motivations, decision turistics, attentional biases and attentional biases. Infants and young children selectively learn from others with strong inclinations to learn from particularly successful or prestigeous peers.
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