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The WEIRDest People in the World received a number of positive reviews. In The Week it was billed as "a work of dazzling ambition ... Henrich goes to great pains to back up with a huge variety of 'data points and statistics." Andrew Wilson of The Gospel Coalition dubbed the book "sweeping, polymathic, counterintuitive, and provocative. In a number of places it looks like Henrich is shoehorning facts into his theory ... but he hits far more than he misses ... the splutters of incredulity you experience are more than made up for by the breadth and chutzpah of the narrative." Wilson compared it with the work of N. T. Wright. In Kirkus Reviews it was praised as a "fascinating, vigorously argued work that probes deeply into the way 'WEIRD people' think."
The Unusual Humans In History
The WEIRDest People in the World received a number of positive reviews. In The Week it was billed as "a work of dazzling ambition ... Henrich goes to great pains to back up with a huge variety of 'data points and statistics." Andrew Wilson of The Gospel Coalition dubbed the book "sweeping, polymathic, counterintuitive, and provocative. In a number of places it looks like Henrich is shoehorning facts into his theory ... but he hits far more than he misses ... the splutters of incredulity you experience are more than made up for by the breadth and chutzpah of the narrative." Wilson compared it with the work of N. T. Wright. In Kirkus Reviews it was praised as a "fascinating, vigorously argued work that probes deeply into the way 'WEIRD people' think."