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Director of the Centre for the Study of Social Cohesion, University of Oxford

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May 08, 2018

A systematic assessment of 'Axial Age' proposals using global comparative historical evidence→

May 08, 2018/ CSSC Administrator

Daniel Austin Mullins, Daniel Hoyer, Christina Collins, Thomas Currie, Kevin Feeney, Pieter Francois, Patrick E. Savage, Harvey Whitehouse, Pieter Turchin (2018) American Sociological Review

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2018, journal-articles
Axial Age, Cultural Evolution Lab
April 27, 2018

Dacura: A new solution to data harvesting and knowledge extraction for the historical sciences→

April 27, 2018/ CSSC Administrator

Peter N. Peregrine, Rob Brennan, Thomas Currie, Kevin Feeney, Pieter Francois, Peter Turchin & Harvey Whitehouse (2018) Historical Methods

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2018
Cultural Evolution Lab
January 10, 2018

Quantitative Historical Analysis Uncovers a Single Dimension of Complexity that Structures Global Variation in Human Social Organization. →

January 10, 2018/ CSSC Administrator

Peter Turchin, Thomas E. Currie, Whitehouse, Harvey, et al. (2018) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS)

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journal-articles, 2018
Seshat: Global History Databank, Cultural Evolution Lab
February 24, 2017

Grand challenges for the study of cultural evolution→

February 24, 2017/ CSSC Administrator

Joe Brewer, Michele Gelfand, Joshua Conrad Jackson, Ian F. MacDonald, Peter Neal Peregrine, Peter J. Richerson, Peter Turchin, Harvey Whitehouse and David Sloan Wilson (2017). Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1.

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2017, journal-articles
Cultural Evolution Lab, Binghamton Neighbourhood Project, Seshat: Global History Databank
January 09, 2017

Ritual and Social Evolution: Understanding social complexity through data →

January 09, 2017/ CSSC Administrator

Harvey Whitehouse (2016). In B. Bozic et al (eds.), Computational History and Data-Driven Humanities (Springer International Publishing) pp.3-14. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-46224-0 1

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2016, book-chapter
Cultural Evolution Lab, Seshat: Global History Databank
November 03, 2016

A Macroscope for Global History: Seshat Global History Databank, a methodological overview→

November 03, 2016/ CSSC Administrator

Pieter Francois, J. G. Manning, Harvey Whitehouse, Rob Brennan, Thomas Currie, Kevin Feeney, and Peter Turchin (2016). Digital Humanities Quarterly 10 (4).

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2016, journal-articles
Cultural Evolution Lab, Seshat: Global History Databank
March 15, 2016

Modes of Religiosity and the Evolution of Social Complexity at Çatalhöyük (PDF)→

March 15, 2016/ ScienceSites

Harvey Whitehouse, Camilla Mazzucato, Ian Hodder, and Quentin D. Atkinson (2014). Ian Hodder (ed.) Religion at Work in a Neolithic Society: Vital Matters. Cambridge: CUP.

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book-chapter, 2014
Çatalhöyük, Cultural Evolution Lab, Auckland University
November 04, 2015

The Role of Ritual in the Evolution of Social Complexity: Five Predictions and a Drum Roll→

November 04, 2015/ ScienceSites

Harvey Whitehouse, Peter François, and Peter Turchin (2015). Social Evolution Forum.

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2015, journal-articles
Cultural Evolution Lab
January 28, 2015

The Role of Writing and Recordkeeping in the Cultural Evolution of Human Cooperation (PDF)→

January 28, 2015/ ScienceSites

Dan Mullins, Harvey Whitehouse, and Quentin Atkinson (2013). Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. Vol. 90, Supplement, June 2013: pp S141-S151.

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2013, journal-articles
Cultural Evolution Lab, Auckland University
January 28, 2015

The Cultural Morphospace of Ritual Form: Examining Modes of Religiosity Cross-Culturally (PDF)→

January 28, 2015/ ScienceSites

Quentin D. Atkinson and Harvey Whitehouse (2011). Evolution and Human Behavior. Vol. 32, No.1: pp 50-62.

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2011, journal-articles
Cultural Evolution Lab, Auckland University
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Against interpretive exclusivism

Whitehouse, H. (2024). Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

Anthropology in Action in Vanuatu: Troubleshooting Disaster Relief in the Wake of Tropical Cyclones Judy and Kevin

Whitehouse, H. & Tanguay, J. (2024). Anthropology in Action.

Rethinking ritual: how rituals made our world and how they could save it

Whitehouse, H. (2023) Journal of the Royal Anthrological Institute.

Dying for the group: Towards a general theory of extreme self-sacrifice

Harvey Whitehouse (2018) Behavioral and Brain Sciences 42

The evolution of extreme cooperation via shared dysphoric experiences

Harvey Whitehouse et al. (2017). Nature: Scientific Reports 7.

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