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

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June 08, 2025

On the Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World→

June 08, 2025/ CSSC Administrator

- Thought Economics June 8, 2025

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September 23, 2024

The best books about the evolutionary origins of the modern world→

September 23, 2024/ CSSC Administrator

- Shepherd
September 23, 2024

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January 02, 2024

To Understand Present Day Cultures We Must Study the Past: a Commentary on David Sloan Wilson [with Michael E. Hochberg]→

January 02, 2024/ CSSC Administrator

- Social Evolution Forum
October 15, 2012

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October 01, 2023

Four Recipes for Religion→

October 01, 2023/ CSSC Administrator

- International Cognition and Culture Institute
January 25, 2010

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August 22, 2023

Do Universal Moral Intuitions Shape and Constrain Culturally Prevalent Moral Norms?→

August 22, 2023/ CSSC Administrator

- The Evolution Institute
May 17, 2018

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June 07, 2023

The Role of Ritual in the Evolution of Social Complexity: Five Predictions and a Drum Roll [with Pieter François and Peter Turchin]→

June 07, 2023/ CSSC Administrator

- Social Evolution Forum
October 19, 2015

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March 07, 2023

Intelligent Design Versus Random Mutation? (A comment on Steven Pinker) [with Ryan McKay]→

March 07, 2023/ CSSC Administrator

- Social Evolution Forum
June 22, 2012
* see Steven Pinker’s Edge essay “The False Allure of Group Selection”

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November 15, 2022

A bad time for (some) theories but a good time for history?→

November 15, 2022/ CSSC Administrator

- Cliodynamica
May 5, 2019

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September 14, 2022

Harvey Whitehouse's "The Ritual Animal"→

September 14, 2022/ CSSC Administrator

- The Page 99 Test
February 1, 2022

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July 22, 2022

De-radicalization or De-fusion? →

July 22, 2022/ CSSC Administrator

- Social Change Lab
October 8, 2018

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Solving Global Problems Requires Global Cohesion

Whitehouse, H., et al. (2025) New England Journal of Public Policy.

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

Whitehouse, H. (2018) Behavioral and Brain Sciences 42.

The evolution of extreme cooperation via shared dysphoric experiences

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

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Rituals As Social Glue: An Interview With Harvey Whitehouse
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Harvey appeared in episode 4, "Creation," of The Story of God with Morgan Freeman, Sunday, 24 April on National Geographic Channel UK.

Harvey appeared in episode 4, "Creation," of The Story of God with Morgan Freeman, Sunday, 24 April on National Geographic Channel UK.

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