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Interlude LXXXIV: Transmission | Joseph Henrich, Peter Richerson, Cultural Evolution, and How Civilizations Survive
How does culture survive across generations?
Why can a civilization preserve its books, monuments, recipes, rituals, and tools while still losing the knowledge that once gave them meaning?
And what happens when a community stores its inheritance but stops teaching people how to live inside it?
In Interlude LXXXIV of The Observable Unknown, Dr. Juan Carlos Rey examines cultural transmission, cumulative culture, social learning, collective inheritance, teaching, tradition, and the ways human knowledge moves from one generation to the next.
Drawing upon the work of Joseph Henrich and Peter…
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