The collective brain

Michael Muthukrishna

Innovations are not the product of innovators per se any more than your thoughts are the product of a particular neuron. Innovators sit in a social network, in a collective brain, where ideas are flowing around, recombining and reconnecting.

I’m Professor of Economic Psychology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. I am also Affiliate of the Developmental Economics Group at STICERD and of the Data Science Institute. I work on human evolution and cultural evolution. I am a 2024 Philip Leverhulme Prize Winner.

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