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The Indiana Jones Of Anthropology On The Origins Of Western Psychology — Joe Henrich

The Joe Walker Podcast

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The Evolution of the Human Brain

Human brains expand by three times over a period of two million years, super quick and evolutionary time scales. And then in many ways what our brains are for in the evolutionary sense is acquiring, storing, and organizing all this information we have to learn from others. So that's one of the interesting bits of that tale.

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