Are we smart because we have culture? Or do we have culture because we're smart?

A new book by Joe Henrich Professor at Harvard University makes the argument that our cultural evolution has gone hand in hand with our genetic evolution. It's an interesting argument, pulled together using data from several different sources. Kindea Labs created a cool visualization:

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