# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-henrich
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:30:43.451Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-henrich"
name: "Joseph Henrich"
slug: "joseph-henrich"
description: "Joseph Henrich is an American anthropologist and professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University. Before arriving at Harvard, Henrich was a professor of psychology and economics at the University of British Columbia. He is interested in the question of how humans evolved from \"being a relatively unremarkable primate a few million years ago to the most successful species on the globe\", and how culture shaped our species' genetic evolution."
tagline: "American evolutionary biologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joseph_Henrich_at_Mercatus_Center.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1968-09-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  historical:           9.91538
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/JoHenrich"
    handle:    "JoHenrich"
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    url:       "https://henrich.fas.harvard.edu"
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    title: "Joseph Henrich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump