# Joseph Henrich Back to [[Religion, Trust and Civilization]] · [[Research and Evidence]] · [[Authors/@Kristof_Poland/Post Analyses/Post Analysis - Kristof_Poland on God and Chesterton's Fence (2026-10-24)|Essay analysis]] **Role:** Evolutionary anthropologist, Harvard - *The WEIRDest People in the World* (2020) ◻ and Schulz et al., *Science* 2019 ✔. Impersonal trust in the West traces to the Church's marriage and family program, which broke up kin networks. - Co-author of Purzycki et al. 2016 ✔. Also *The Secret of Our Success* (2016) on cultural evolution, the best case for "old traditions encode wisdom" ◻. - He supports the essay's broad intuition but shifts the mechanism from belief to institutions. Key: ✔ confirmed this session · ◻ standard knowledge, not opened this session · ⚠️ unconfirmed.