Joseph Henrich is professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University. He also holds the Canada Research Chair in Culture, Cognition, and Coevolution at the University of British Columbia, where he is a professor in the departments of psychology and economics. He is the coauthor of Why Humans Cooperate and the coeditor of Experimenting with Social Norms.

"A mind-opening book about how culture interacts with biology and technology in an evolutionary process."---Jayati Ghosh, Project Syndicate --- "An ambitious and timely endeavor to re-frame the conversation around human behavior. . . . This work will undoubtedly play an important role in conversations about human behavior for years to come."---Adrienne Tecza, Journal of Politics and Life Sciences --- "Henrich presents a compelling case along with a thoroughly engaging read."---Jason Zinser, Quarterly Review of Biology --- "It is engagingly written, is illustrated with fun examples, includes autobiographical reminiscences, and (important!) eschews mathematical equations. . . . Secret of Our Success is much more than a popular book. It addresses the most fundamental questions about our societies. . . . My strong recommendation is to read the book. I'll say more: Secret of Our Success is going to be a field-defining book for Cultural Evolution in the next decade."---Peter Turchin, Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture --- "A deep account of the relationship between culture and the human mind is now emerging, with The Secret of our Success by anthropologist Joseph Henrich blazing a trail in late 2015. Here Laland adds important layers to this new understanding." --- "This book synthesizes, in a format accessible to general readers, research from a variety of disciplines that address in varying ways, the evolutionary journey begun about 6 million years ago by our primate ancestors, forming humans in the process, into a unique species centered, according to Harvard evolutionary biologist Henrich, around social learning, cultural transmission, and cumulative culture." --- "Culture sits upon a foundation of genetics and biology but is separate from it. Joseph Henrich wanted to upend this conventional narrative. . . . The implications of this new, continuing narrative for the way we think about people, societies, and even companies are both subtle and significant."---David K. Hurst, Strategy + Business --- "Human evolutionary biologist and psychologist, Joseph Henrich, a professor at both Harvard and the University of British Columbia has provided compelling insights into the ways that social, physical, scientific, agricultural, religious, and other human practices commonly termed 'culture' have honed man's skills and fostered survival strategies. . . . The contents offer a very readable and riveting story of how culture--gene interaction must be examined when assaying human intelligence." --- "Henrich posits a unique approach to understanding human behavior, not in purely evolutionary terms, but as a process of cultural evolution." --- "I thought I understood cultural evolution. But in his new book, The Secret of Our Success, Joseph Henrich schooled me. I felt like I learned more from his book than from the last dozen books I've read."---Robin Hanson, Overcoming Bias --- "Mind-stretching…. Henrich's book will take you on a prodigious journey through human nature and society."---Alun Anderson, , New Scientist --- ""A provocative alternative to the standard narrative about evolution…. Henrich's book is immensely ambitious, informative, and important."---Glenn Altschuler, Psychology Today --- "Joseph Henrich . . . offers a compelling and comprehensive answer in his exceptional new book The Secret of Our Success: How Culture is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter. It is an intellectual tour-de-force that offers an overview for the field of cultural evolution."---Joe Brewer, This View of Life --- "Henrich draws on his far-flung ethnographic field studies and the work of colleagues to illustrate the adaptive power of human culture." --- "[A] pleasure for the biologically and scientifically inclined." --- "Limber and lucid."---Barbara Kiser, Nature --- "A Project Syndicate Best Read in 2019"