motion, we can’t help but mimic it. No surprise then that crowds and their emotional members drive each other mad! Robert Boyd, Peter Richerson, and Joseph Henrich, proponents of the dominant mode of cultural evolution, postulate that people are easily influenced by prestigious individuals —wherever their presti

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ing the hunter-gatherers and subsistence farmers of Africa, Asia, and South America, should respond to unfair exchanges. The American anthropologist Joseph Henrich and his colleagues presented a set of bargaining games to adults living in different small-scale societies across the globe. Though the subjects in t