"The WEIRDest People in the World is among the best books I have read in the last five to ten years." — Jason Furman, former economic advisor for President Barack Obama, Professor at Harvard Kennedy School
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"...prepare to meet a mountain of evidence, compiled by one of the great systematic thinkers of our time. This book is at once monumental and thrilling.” —Joshua Greene, author of Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them
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"Bold and original, this book will shape the debate about the origins of modern society for years to come.” — Paul Seabright, author of The War of the Sexes
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‘The most absorbing, provocative and compelling book I have read in a long time. ... You will never look again in the same way at your own seemingly universal values’ —Uta Frith, Emeritus Professor of Cognitive Development, University College London