Joseph Henrich
Anthropologist and Harvard professor
Joseph Henrich is an American anthropologist who holds a professorship in human evolutionary biology at Harvard University. He studies how culture and genes have shaped each other in human evolution.
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Born 1968 in Norristown, United States
About Joseph Henrich
Joseph Henrich, born in 1968, is an American anthropologist who holds a professorship in human evolutionary biology at Harvard University. He has served as chair of the department there. Before Harvard, he taught psychology and economics at the University of British Columbia. His research covers cultural learning, cultural evolution, and the way culture and genes have evolved together. He also studies large-scale cooperation, religion, leadership, and the rise of complex human institutions. His methods combine ethnographic tools from anthropology with experiments drawn from psychology and economics. He is the author of The WEIRDest People in the World.